[10015] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: Caching of cgi results
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andy Coles - WEB developer)
Fri May 31 04:51:37 1996
Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 09:32:47 +0100
From: Andrew.Coles@it.newsint.co.uk (Andy Coles - WEB developer)
To: www-talk@w3.org
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
> Is there a simple method to stop browser cacheing the results of a cgi request. For instance, I have a cgi which writes out a gif on the fly and although the URL to this cgi looks the same every time:-
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> i.e.
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> <IMG SRC="/cgi-bin/image?block.gif">
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> the image produced is actually different. The browser caches the first image and will only show the latest version if you reload the page.
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> Andy Coles
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ps
I have tried sending an Expires header with the date set to the same as that of the Date header.
