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  • Brian Kitt
    #1

    How can I prevent a .gif from downloading on every reference?

    I have an animated .gif on my website. It is about 36k. I want this on
    every page in my site, but it appears that it downloads every time a user
    loads a page. This will kill dial up users. Shouldn't I.E. pull this from
    Cache if it's there? Is there a way for me to set this image to not download
    on every page, but instead, use if from Temporary Internet Files on the users
    Cache?

    Thanks
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    • Peter Rilling
      #2
      Re: How can I prevent a .gif from downloading on every reference?

      Cache settings are dependent on the persons IE settings. A person can
      disable cache if they want.

      How do you know that it is being downloaded each time?

      "Brian Kitt" <BrianKitt@disc ussions.microso ft.com> wrote in message
      news:0E4C9667-9848-413C-A238-FB1770628F13@mi crosoft.com...[color=blue]
      >I have an animated .gif on my website. It is about 36k. I want this on
      > every page in my site, but it appears that it downloads every time a user
      > loads a page. This will kill dial up users. Shouldn't I.E. pull this
      > from
      > Cache if it's there? Is there a way for me to set this image to not
      > download
      > on every page, but instead, use if from Temporary Internet Files on the
      > users
      > Cache?
      >
      > Thanks[/color]


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        • Brian Kitt
          #3
          Re: How can I prevent a .gif from downloading on every reference?

          Right now I am just testing on my machine only, but I am running standard
          internet explorer settings. I know my cache settings are on. The page will
          load, internet explorer will pause for a second, then the images appear. It
          would seem to me that if they were in cache, it would be immediate. I would
          expect the second page to show the image quicker, since it should be in
          cache, but that does not appear to be the case. I'm on a pretty souped up
          computer, so I wouldn't expect any delay time loading from cache. I also
          clean my cache out every night, so things don't build up.

          "Peter Rilling" wrote:
          [color=blue]
          > Cache settings are dependent on the persons IE settings. A person can
          > disable cache if they want.
          >
          > How do you know that it is being downloaded each time?
          >
          > "Brian Kitt" <BrianKitt@disc ussions.microso ft.com> wrote in message
          > news:0E4C9667-9848-413C-A238-FB1770628F13@mi crosoft.com...[color=green]
          > >I have an animated .gif on my website. It is about 36k. I want this on
          > > every page in my site, but it appears that it downloads every time a user
          > > loads a page. This will kill dial up users. Shouldn't I.E. pull this
          > > from
          > > Cache if it's there? Is there a way for me to set this image to not
          > > download
          > > on every page, but instead, use if from Temporary Internet Files on the
          > > users
          > > Cache?
          > >
          > > Thanks[/color]
          >
          >
          >[/color]

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            • Peter Rilling
              #4
              Re: How can I prevent a .gif from downloading on every reference?

              IE may send a request to the server asking if the file has been updated, or
              not.

              To know if it is actually downloading the image, check the IIS logs to see
              what the server is doing with that file.


              "Brian Kitt" <BrianKitt@disc ussions.microso ft.com> wrote in message
              news:63C51A28-3E6B-4354-B182-C16DB9B60F81@mi crosoft.com...[color=blue]
              > Right now I am just testing on my machine only, but I am running standard
              > internet explorer settings. I know my cache settings are on. The page
              > will
              > load, internet explorer will pause for a second, then the images appear.
              > It
              > would seem to me that if they were in cache, it would be immediate. I
              > would
              > expect the second page to show the image quicker, since it should be in
              > cache, but that does not appear to be the case. I'm on a pretty souped up
              > computer, so I wouldn't expect any delay time loading from cache. I also
              > clean my cache out every night, so things don't build up.
              >
              > "Peter Rilling" wrote:
              >[color=green]
              >> Cache settings are dependent on the persons IE settings. A person can
              >> disable cache if they want.
              >>
              >> How do you know that it is being downloaded each time?
              >>
              >> "Brian Kitt" <BrianKitt@disc ussions.microso ft.com> wrote in message
              >> news:0E4C9667-9848-413C-A238-FB1770628F13@mi crosoft.com...[color=darkred]
              >> >I have an animated .gif on my website. It is about 36k. I want this on
              >> > every page in my site, but it appears that it downloads every time a
              >> > user
              >> > loads a page. This will kill dial up users. Shouldn't I.E. pull this
              >> > from
              >> > Cache if it's there? Is there a way for me to set this image to not
              >> > download
              >> > on every page, but instead, use if from Temporary Internet Files on the
              >> > users
              >> > Cache?
              >> >
              >> > Thanks[/color]
              >>
              >>
              >>[/color][/color]


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