How to make a browser reload an image from the server
Cedik on June 1st, 2008
No-cache and no-store tags not working? It happened to me too. I tried all the tricks: the pragma meta tags, the cache-control meta tags, I even made the page have an expiration date from the past. Useless! All of these tactics were useless agains Internet Explorer and Opera. They only worked on Firefox and Safari.
You see, I made this script that updated an image every time someone went to the next page. The image was modified by the php command before the < img src > tag was output but still… no matter what I did, IE and Opera used to run that image from their cache, so the user had to reload the page in order to see the newly generated image. But I managed to get things going. Read the rest of this entry »
