Problem with image caching

Rails
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Hello,

I have a little problem with image caching. I have a Student model which
contains, for each student, a picture (picture_data for datas and
picture_type for the content-type of the picture). As I want to save
brandwidth, I followed the tutorial in
Peak Obsession for caching pictures. If
I test, as the tutorial suggests it, with curl, it’s working well. No
problems.

But in reality, it’s not working well. I have a page to view the student
properties (/student/view/:id) with the picture into and a page to edit
properties (/student/edit/:id) in which you can upload a new picture.
When I update properties, if everything went done normally, I just send
a redirect_to to the view. But when I change the picture in the edit
page, the picture doesn’t update in the view. I have to refresh the page
(F5) to get an update of the picture. If I sniff requests made by my
browser, after the edit, the picture is not requested. I don’t know
why.

Every browsers are affected (IE, IE7, FireFox (win and linux), Opera
(linux)).

I tried to change the cache headers of the view page without any
affects. The only option I have is to send the picture every-time
without caching.

Any ideas on this ?

Thanks you very much in advance :wink:

++ Jérôme

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Jérôme Loyet wrote:

But when I change the picture in the edit
page, the picture doesn’t update in the view. I have to refresh the
page (F5) to get an update of the picture.

Here’s a guess, without understanding that chapter/62:

Hit View Source and look at this line:

That big number, 1162442777, is probably the number of seconds from an
epoch
to the file modification time of ‘prototype.js’.

You need to either figure out what Railsoid system provides such
numbers,
and turn it on for images, or you need to rewrite it, with
File.stat().mtime.to_i (IIRC).

(And I would use the file time of your image on your server, not a
database
record time…)

Then when the file time changes, the page will contain a different
number,
and the browser will know to re-fetch the image.

Every browsers are affected (IE, IE7, FireFox (win and linux), Opera
(linux)).

That’s because caching and not re-loading images is about the most basic
and
common optimization they can perform.

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Phlip
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