jquery
Mention of ‘timestamp’ in documentation for ‘cache’ parameter of ‘ajax’ is misleading
The documentation for the ‘cache’ parameter of ‘ajax’ says:
It works by appending "_={timestamp}" to the GET parameters.
This seems a bit misleading. I interpreted it as a timestamp of when the request is sent. But the value after _= is actually taken from a counter:
https://github.com/jquery/jquery/blob/f79d5f1a337528940ab7029d4f8bbba72326f269/dist/jquery.js#L9435
The counter is only initialized using Date.now():
https://github.com/jquery/jquery/blob/f79d5f1a337528940ab7029d4f8bbba72326f269/dist/jquery.js#L8501
I got confused by that when analyzing nginx access logs and wondering why the ‘timestamps’ didn’t match up.
The documentation should probably just say that it works by appending "_={uid}".
Thanks for the report. I transferred it to the API repo since it's a docs issue.
Would you like to submit a PR?
BTW, there are a few more similar entries to potentially replace on that same page.
