[San-Diego-pm] An old yet persistent problem
Joel Fentin
joel at fentin.com
Mon Sep 27 09:21:36 PDT 2010
Al,
Thank you for getting back to me. Please see below.
On 9/26/2010 11:35 AM, Al Tobey wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Joel Fentin <joel at fentin.com
> <mailto:joel at fentin.com>> wrote:
>
> The browser makers could make this easy but they won't.
>
> I have needed this for years. Here is the current version of
> the need:
> After some .JPG files swap names, I want the user to reload
> the page from the server. Not from the cache. Elsewise, the
> pictures appear in the wrong places.
>
> I've been rummaging Stack Overflow and in plenty of other
> places, looking for advice. None of it works for me.
>
> 1. The most typical advice is along the lines of:
> <meta http-equiv="Cache-Control" content="no-cache, no-store,
> must-revalidate">
> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Pragma" CONTENT="no-cache">
> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Cache-Control" CONTENT="no-cache">
> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Pragma-directive" CONTENT="no-cache">
> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Cache-Directive" CONTENT="no-cache">
> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Expires" CONTENT="0">
> No combination of these works for me.
>
> 2. The one and only thing that works well is to press the F5
> button after the page loads. I have not seen an example of
> this in the Perl code.
>
> 3. Perhaps there is some javascript that would do the job. I
> would need it to do something like: xxx.pl?ID=1234
> <http://xxx.pl?ID=1234>. Not a link nor a button - but
> executed in and at the end of the Perl script.
>
> If the cure is to work in only one browser, I prefer Firefox.
>
>
> Have you tried Etags?
Until I got your email, I had never heard of Etags. Since then, I
have been reading and reading. I still don't get it.
ITEMS:
+ In your example below, where does the 123456789 come from? Is it
from within the jpg pulled out with Image::ExifTool?
+ Is the "v" a special browser variable or an HTML control name?
+ If the browser makers can enable the F5 button for the
convenience of the users, why won't they give us (the programmers)
the same convenience?
> http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html <- great stuff
> in there in general
>
> Maybe you can add a version string to the image URL and get most
> of what you want. I haven't seen it used for images but it's
> used quite a bit for javascript.
>
> <img src="/images/foo.jpg?v=123456789"/> This can even point at a
> regular file and Apache will eat the query. If you change the
> version in your HTML, it'll bypass your browser cache and come
> back to the server even if the filename is the same - at least for
> <script> tags.
>
> That said, Etag headers per-image are probably what you really want.
>
> -Al
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