Re: Netscape & Animated Gif problems

Maybe have banner_show spew out some sort of caching/valid-thru deadlines for Netscape to know that even though it's dynamic, it's not that dynamic. Or, use modRewrite and encode SID and T as part of the path. Search for online tutorial about "PHP and Rewrite" ----- Original Message ----- From: Dave Miyares <dmiyares@icleveland.com> Newsgroups: php.general Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2000 12:09 AM Subject: [PHP] Netscape & Animated Gif problems > > Hello, > > Any one have any ideas on how to tell Netscape to Cache animate gifs and > not RELOAD them from the server? Problem I have is that I've got all sorts > of banners stored as BLOBS in MySql, and am calling them via <img > src="/banner_show.php?SID=1&T=1" width="468" height="60" > border="0" alt=""> > tag. (SID=section T=type) > > However, I noticed that when viewing my site with Netscape, the banners > rotate! What I mean by rotate is that banner 1 will be called on the > initial page view then once banner 1's animation is finished and it should > loop banner 2 is then called then 3 and then back to 1. Meanwhile we only > have 1 page view. This does not happen in IE or Opera. This problem has > shot my ad impressions though the roof while totally killing my click thru > ratio... > > Inside my script I have 2 db calls. The first does a MIN querey to see > which banner has been shown the least and the second is to update the > IMPRESSION field of the record. The banner rotating is what it should do > on each page view, not on the end of an animation cycle. > > Anyhow... Is there anyway via headers or whatever to tell Netscape to pull > the image from the cache and not reload it from the server? > > On an aside... I've seen this problem before on sites using $60,000+ > software... now I have an explanation to whats going on. > > Dave Miyares > dmiyares AT icleveland.com > www.icleveland.com > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >