[San-Diego-pm] An old yet persistent problem

Urivan Flores saaib at ciberlinux.net
Mon Sep 27 21:45:57 PDT 2010


> > 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.
> >

Joel,

The following has always worked when I had that need:

print "<a href='imagename.jpg?".time()."'>";

Just append a unique string to the image.

Regards,

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Urivan Flores-Saaib
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