How to force a web browser to cache Images
I am writing a small application which serves images from the local computer, so they can be accessed as http://localhost:12345/something/something (which returns a jpeg).
How can I force the browser to cache this, so only a single request would be sent to the server. Would this header be sufficient
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Cache-Control: public, max-age=99936000
Content-Length: 123456
Content-Type: image/jpeg
This seems to work with Firefox 3.x but would it be sufficient globally for other browser as well?
Answer
A Last-Modified and Expires header might also be useful additions.
Your server should also check for requests featuring an If-Modified-Since header, and return a 304 Not Modified response if possible to speed things along.