in reply to Preventing an image from caching

If you are generating the page, append a random number to the call for the image. 
<IMG SRC="/cgi-bin/image.pl?rand=4531269823">

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Each time the page draws the string will be different, eliminating the cached image problem because to the browser it is not the same image.

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Re: Re: Preventing an image from caching
by belize (Deacon) on Nov 28, 2000 at 20:23 UTC
    Thanks for the post, but I am generating the image, saving it to a file, then calling the file with the <IMG...> tag. I can't seem to get the image to go directly to the page because all I get is ASCII text instead of hte binary.
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      Call the file with this script. 
      #!/bin/perl

$image = `cat imagenameandpath`;

print "Content-type: image/png\n\n";
print $image;

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      It's the simplest way i know.

      BTW- image/png is for png file format, substitute gif, jpeg, for others.

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