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[cjcenizal]

I have a Facebook game hosted entirely using PlayerIO (SiteBox, GameFS, BigDB, etc). I uploaded new versions of my SWF via FTP, but when I checked the game on Facebook, it looked like the old SWF was still being served up. So I:

1. Deleted the SWF entirely
2. Cleared the caches of Firefox, Safari, and Chrome
3. Appended a cache-busting variable to the end of my SWF's filename in the embed tag in index.html
4. And checked it again

The old SWF still showed up. I tried uploading the new SWF via GameFS instead of FTP, and the problem persisted.

This looks like a problem with GameFS's caching. What do you guys think?

[Oliver]

Sounds like it...

You say it's the same behavior on both the WebUI and FTP ?

What happens if you upload it again multiple times, or upload it with new filename?

Did it just start happening all of the suddden?

- Oliver

[cjcenizal]

Hi Oliver, thanks for super fast response. The WebUI and FTP both result in the same behavior. It did just start happening all of a sudden. It used to work fine before when I would just overwrite the old file. Uploading multiple times has the same behavior. Uploading with a new filename does solve the problem -- great idea! Don't know why I didn't think of that. While this solves my issue temporarily, is there any more information I can provide or anything I can do to help you diagnose the underlying problem further?

[Oliver]

You can send me the filename, and i'll try it myself. But only once i know you've switched to using another file...