Re: how do I stop Firefox doing a conditional get?
| From: | Robin Vickery | Date: | Wed, 14 May 2008 10:58:59 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: how do I stop Firefox doing a conditional get? | ||
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2008/5/14 Per Jessen <per@computer.org>:
> All,
>
> not really PHP related, but I figured someone here would already
> have solved this problem.
> I've got a page with a single <img>. I change the src attribute
> dynamically using javascript. Although the images being served all
> have long expiry times, Firefox still does a conditional get to which
> apache says "304" as it should.
>
> The issue is - I'd like this page to appear to be as "real time" as
> possible, and the occasional delay caused by the conditional get is a
> nuisance. My images are clearly cached, so how do I prevent Firefox
> from doing the conditional get ? There must be some HTTP header I can
> use.
You can use either or both of 'Expires' or 'Cache-Control'
-robin