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Adding ability to avoid caching of less files by browser #84

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9 changes: 9 additions & 0 deletions README.md
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Expand Up @@ -31,6 +31,15 @@ URIs can be made relative to the individual LESS files with the global LESS conf
<script>window.less = { relativeUrls: true }</script>
```

Avoid caching
---

You can avoid caching by adding random "_t" parameter to URLs of less files. You can do this by adding next configuration option:

```html
<script>window.less = { avoidCaching: true }</script>
```

Installation and Setup
----------------------

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4 changes: 4 additions & 0 deletions lessc.js
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Expand Up @@ -7742,6 +7742,10 @@ function loadFile(originalHref, currentFileInfo, callback, env, modifyVars) {
return;
}

if (less.avoidCaching) {
href = href + (href.indexOf("?") === -1 ? "?" : "&") + "_t=" + (Math.random() * Math.pow(10, 16));
}

doXHR(href, env.mime, function (data, lastModified) {
// per file cache
fileCache[href] = data;
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