Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on 03/22/07 10:46

Scripsit MG:

> Someone will visit this page to see if their photos are there. They
> aren't.

So? You don't describe the upload process, but if it is rational, it does
not use "placeholder" images for nonexistent images. Apparently the problem
is that it does. Fix that.

> Pressing the refresh button on the browser sometimes works, sometimes
> it doesn't. Same for F5. I have heard that Ctrl-F5 works better,

Yes.

> The best solution would be to prevent caching in the first place.

Not at all. Caches are your friend.

> I believe there is a meta tag that can do this,

You're wrong. A meta tag applies to the HTML document where it resides, so
it cannot affect any images.

Although it _is_ possible to affect caching images, I'm not giving any
references, since that would be the wrong path. Fix what's broken.

--
Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

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