Text Files and the Cache

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In one particular folder in my web directory I have over 300 text files which are loaded by a flash program but never actually brought up on the screen. Unfortunately, because these text files are downloaded they are still stored in the cache. This means that if I make alterations to this text file, the only way that the user can get the latest version of the file is for me to point them in the direction of it (no, they never actually see the file or where it is located) so they can manually refresh the page themselves.
Is there any way to make sure that these text files aren't cached?
 
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Not sure about the flash part but if you use headers you should be able to use no-cache which should tell the browser not to cache the page.

Here is an example:
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache">
</head>
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Yes but I can't do that with a plain text file, not an HTML file.
Isn't there anyway to do that server side?
 
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Add this to your .htaccess file:

AddType text/html .txt

should work..
 
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I did that and I still have the same problem.

And is the .htaccess file meant to be empty by default?
 
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Yes, it can be empty by default.

I'm not sure if you can do what you're trying to do server side.

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