load external jpg - cache related question

[Bignewbie]

Hi guys,

I always thought that when an external jpg is loaded into an swf, it is cached by the browser. or is it?

is there anyway to force it to be cached? I have an swf that loads external jpgs (10-20 of them) at certain points, when I refresh the page, it seems that the swf loads the external jpgs from my server not my cache, coz it takes the same time to show up. and i inspected my cache folder, it contains no jpgs, only the swf file. Any help would be appreciated.

biggie





The Man of Tomorrow is forged by his battles today.

 

[oldnewbie]

It should be cached! Are you using the full url?

Regards,

 

[Bignewbie]

old,

sorry for the delayed reply, i was soooo busy yesterday. My boss kept me busy. anyways, i found out our test server doesnt cache. Our administrator confirmed it. for security reasons, he says, though i can't think of a reason.

a few questions though, in the code below:

MCurl="[URL unfurl="true"]http://myserver.com/images/myimage.jpg";[/URL]
loadMovie("_root.MC1",MCurl);

if myimage.jpg is already in cache, does flash load the pic from the server or from cache? Would it matter if I use relative URL instead of the full URL?

Im using a similar approach to loading an external jpg on two MCs (im showing it one after another using loadmovie), the second always has a delay (longer than i expected or almost as long as the first MC, provided the jpg is already cached)


also would it be possible to duplicate an MC in the _root timeline into another MC? in other words, i would like to duplicate _root.MC1 and put it within _root.MC2? just a wild theory since I dont know why we can duplicate an MC onto a unique depth but not into a target MC. ;-)

biggie




The Man of Tomorrow is forged by his battles today.