[Moin-user] I want a "changing logo" - browser cache problem

[Sebastian Haase]

On 6/20/07, Thomas Waldmann <tw-public at gmx.de> wrote:
> >>> /wiki/mylogo.jpg
> > I'm using the DesktopEdition on  mac OSX.
>
> OK, so you are using the builtin "standalone" server.
>
> Well, maybe it is just not intelligent enough for such stuff. :)
>
> > Could Apache give different results !?
>
> Yes, apache is very configurable for such stuff. But also much more
> complex than running mmde.
>
>  > It looked to me like a client
> > side problem, fixable by changing some html code --- maybe I'm wrong
>
> No, this is likely the server side not serving correct caching headers.
>
> It could be also the client not correctly processing the caching
> headers, but this is less likely.
>
> BTW, if you would change the image name (url) each time, this would work
> around the caching problem.

I was thinking about this solution -- but how !?
I thought the  logo-info (i.e. the image name URL) is saved in a
python variable (in the running python process) -- how could a
cron-job change this !?

Thanks,
Sebastian