Comments on: AJAX Logfile Tailer & Viewer

By: John Minnihan

John Minnihan — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 04:43:57 +0000

I have added a working example here:

https://freepository.com/ajax-logtail-viewer.php

By: John Minnihan

John Minnihan — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 22:09:56 +0000

There was a publishing error in the ajax Javascript.

The very last line:

var request = createRequest();

must be included - very sorry!

By: John Minnihan

John Minnihan — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 19:32:11 +0000

Hey graziano,

Sure - you may edit the script any way you wish. Have fun with it.

What part isn’t working? Do you see any error messages?

By: Graziano

Graziano — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 08:02:25 +0000

Hello

may I use this
var url = “logtail.php”;
instead of this
var url = “http://your.system.yourdomain.com/logtail.php”;

BTW for me it’s does not work , do you confirm that all the js files are shown above ?

Thank you!

By: John Minnihan

John Minnihan — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 17:37:55 +0000

hey Aaron,

Sorry for the delayed reply to your question.

The getLog function updates properly for me on Flock, Firefox & Camino on OSX. You may be seeing results of IE’s (assuming IE here) aggressive caching. There are two ways to avoid the caching isssue: first, create a truly random URL such that each time the GET is invoked, it will indeed be unique. This is in fact the technique you used.

The other is to use the NO-CACHE metatag on the page. I’ve used this elsewhere to prevent IE from caching a page, primarily to prevent it from being accessible in the history. This is discussed here:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q222064/

Note that to fully implement this technique, you must place a NO-CACHE rule both in the header and at the bottom of the html.