I'm finding that this is cacheing some http_get requests so that the the GET request is not even sent and old data is returned. For example if I did:
http_result = httpGET("url.php");
Where url.php consisted of <?php echo 'hello'; ?>
then http_result would output 'hello' as you would expect. But then if I edit url.php to <?php echo 'goodbye'; ?> and save the changes then call
http_result = httpGET("url.php");
Then http_result still outputs 'hello' instead of 'goodbye'. I'm attempting to avoid this by adding "url.php?t=",TimeSeconds(TimeCurrent()) to the end of the url but this might be a memory leak if the code is cacheing return results.
Thoughts?
Adding to my comment above, I found the following flags in wininet.dll that appear relevant but do not know how to implement them in your code:
INTERNET_FLAG_NO_CACHE_WRITE - does not cache the returned result
INTERNET_FLAG_RELOAD -forces a download of the file, even if it is already in cache
Any help would be appreciated.
Ok, the following changes worked for me:
In the #import part:
#import "wininet.dll"
#define INTERNET_FLAG_PRAGMA_NOCACHE 0x00000100 // Forces the request to be resolved by the origin server, even if a cached copy exists on the proxy.
#define INTERNET_FLAG_NO_CACHE_WRITE 0x04000000 // Does not add the returned entity to the cache.
#define INTERNET_FLAG_RELOAD 0x80000000 // Forces a download of the requested file, object, or directory listing from the origin server, not from the cache.
....
#import
In the httpGET function:
int response = InternetOpenUrlW(handler, strUrl,"",0, INTERNET_FLAG_NO_CACHE_WRITE |
INTERNET_FLAG_PRAGMA_NOCACHE |
INTERNET_FLAG_RELOAD);
This is a good, and still working Library.
Has someone a solution how to increase or setup the timeout for the response ?
Tell me how to update it in OnInit ()? atoms have to reload terminal

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