Why do you prevent caching of uploadify.swf ?

[insomniax]

I have been examining my site performance and notice one of the slowest loading objects is uploadify.swf because you add a querystring to prevent caching:

content/system/js/uploadify.swf?preventswfcaching=1357451514760

Is there a particular reason why you coded this to never be cached?

 

[Rodolfo]

Nope, is how uploadify works by default. You can disable this cache in chevereto.js and chevereto.min.js, look at the end of the file.

http://www.uploadify.com/documentation/uploadify/preventcaching/

 

[insomniax]

Thanks for the reply, I just wanted to make sure there wasn't a good reason for it before I disabled it.

 

[Rodolfo]

Actually is pretty stupid, the .swf file is a static file. Perhaps there is some good reason for it but I ignore it.