Posted by R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah on 05/06/06 22:04

thehuby wrote:
> I am building a CMS and as part of it a user can upload an image.
>
> Once uploaded I am displaying the image.
>
> If the user then decides they want to replace the image with another I
> get a caching issue in the browser as the image has the same name.
>
> Without having to use unique file names each time the user replaces an
> image, how can I force the browser to check for the file properly?

Quick dirty hack is to append a random number to the image like
<img src="foo.jpg?999" />-- so that the browser will think it always
getting different image.

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