The NoCache Plug-in is a plug-in for WebSTAR-compatible web servers that will send a file without using the web server's caches. You should use this to serve files that change frequently if manual cache flushing is not available or desirable.
For instance, if you are saving a webcam image using file sharing or FTP, you'll want to use this plug-in to serve those images. The no-cache plug-in does not work with aliases.
How to Use
The NoCache plug-in is easy to use. Just drop it into your plug-in directory and restart your server. Then add .nocache to any local file reference that you want to serve cache-free. For instance, change:
<IMG SRC="images/dynamic.gif">
to
<IMG SRC="images/dynamic.gif.nocache">
Do not change the name of the file to send––the NoCache Plug-In will correctly strip off the .nocache and serve the remaining file name. For security reasons, only files of type: TEXT, GIFf, JPEG, and MOOV will be served. The following suffix mappings will occur.
TEXT text/html
GIFf image/gif
JPEG image/jpeg
MOOV video/quicktime
About Caching
WebStar's File information cache keeps track of a file's length and data type. If the file is modified, especially if the file's length is changed, the cached information can be wrong, causing broken images or other problems on the browser side. Without the no-cache plug-in, if you change a file, you must flush the cache, or turn both caches off.
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