[thelist] curious cache-ing when update images

ben morrison morrison.ben at gmail.com
Tue May 6 03:44:54 CDT 2008


On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 8:17 PM, Bob Meetin <bobm at dottedi.biz> wrote:
> I created this utility to easily create (and show clients) various color
>  schemes.  It uses imagemagick's convert to regenerate background images
>  for the page background, left and right columns.  The problem that I am
>  seeing is that although the images are getting generated, they
>  frequently don't refresh on the screen.
>
>  If I hover over and view an updated image, such as the active gradient,
>  and browser reload it, then all is well. What can be done to force the
>  browser (FF or IE) to clear cache (or whatever) and display the newly
>  generated graphics?  Do I need to travel overseas?
>


You could look at setting the expires-header

http://www.issociate.de/board/post/477060/HTML_problem_with_refreshing_the_browser's_display_of_an_image.html




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Ben Morrison



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