DoppyNL - 11:45 am on Feb 28, 2006 (gmt 0)

Hi,

The files don't change very often. I'm planning to make it in such a way that files will never change. But what file to be used will change; after some time a file will no longer be used. I expect that the browser will then remove the file from it's cache after some time (when it needs the space for other files).
This would allow us to tell the browser that it may cache the file for a very long time.

What files will be used (displayed on the screen) will change quite often; for this the pc will regularly make a request to the server what files to use.

We want to run as little software as possible on the client. Installing a webserver is definiatly more than we want to do. This is because there will be over 200 pc's where this has to be done. Simply to much work.

A solution known to work is to install a ftp-client on the pc and instruct it to synchronise on a regular basis. This won't allow us to change what to display on the screen when we want.
If caching of the browser works, this will be much better and it would allow us to change the content instantly.

That is why I'm currently investigating this solution to see if it works.
So I'm looking at ways how I can make a browser cache all sorts of files using only techniques that can be used in the browser itself (html, javascript, activex that will run without problems).

So how would I make a browser cache all sorts of files?