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Re:HTML Live Video Streaming Via WebSockets by ch4ch4 on Wednesday September 11, 2013 @07:24PM (#6370884)
$("#mischacam").attr("src", camURL + "/snapshot.cgi?_=" + Math.random());

Out of curiosity, why do you append a random number between 0 and 1 to the URL?

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Re:HTML Live Video Streaming Via WebSockets by DougWebb on Wednesday September 11, 2013 @10:26PM (#6371679)
mannix is right; to get the browser to reload the image I have to change the url every time. You'd think in a well-designed webcam API the image would come back with appropriate headers to prevent caching, but I didn't even bother to check. The webcam software is not well-designed.
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Re:HTML Live Video Streaming Via WebSockets by mannix on Wednesday September 11, 2013 @07:59PM (#6371049)
Probably to bust possible caching.
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