note 61883 deleted from function.header by tularis

From: Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 14:37:33 +0000
Subject: note 61883 deleted from function.header by tularis
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Note Submitter: timmerca.com ---- I store a lot of images in databases rather than files, and PHP was causing my user's web browsers to not cache these images, which means that every time they went to my web site, they were reloading the same images over and over again. To fix this, I have added the following headers to my download.php script: Header("Expires: " . date("D, j M Y H:i:s", time() + (86400 * 30)) . " UTC"); Header("Cache-Control: Public"); Header("Pragma: Public"); This causes the user's web browsers to cache the image data (in this case for 30 days, but you can make that whatever you want). This sped up my web sites and cut down on hits to my server considerably. So, if you are delivering images through PHP, you should consider adding these headers to your script too.

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