David

I have pages on my website that use a Javascript loop to display an animation. Here is a typical page, the RADAR image is the animation in question: http://ozforecast.com.au/cgi-bin/weather.cgi?station=Toowoomba.QLD&radar I have noticed in my Apache logs that sometimes Firefox clients and derivatives such as Galeon can get stuck in a loop where they hit the server with an If-Modified-Since for every image every time they go through the animation loop. The server responds with http status 304, but then on the next pass through the animation the whole cycle repeats. This generates a lot of traffic for the clients as well as myself. I have tried using mod_expire on the server to instruct the client to use the cached copy of the images and I can see in the HTTP headers that Cache-Control is being set correctly, however header this hasn't fixed the errant browsers: Cache-Control: max-age=86400 This only happens every now and again. At the moment my logs show three Firefox clients stuck in this loop, the user-agent strings are currently all the same: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100824 Firefox/3.6.9 GTB7.1 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729) I am not sure if this is a bug per se, but I wonder if anybody could please suggest what I can do in either the Javascript or the Apache config in order to prevent clients from getting into this state? Many thanks, David