reload() is supposed to accept an argument which tells it to do a hard reload, ie, ignoring the cache:
location.reload(true);
I can't vouch for its reliability, you may want to investigate this further.
Edit (2021): the parameter was never standardised and has been deprecated and removed in more modern browsers. Adding a comment every quarter describing this fact will not help.
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