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Unstalling a stalled animated gif?

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Aug 02.2006

How does one force a gif file to reload every time a page is reloaded?

I tried these three in combination with no success:

<META http-equiv=”Pragma” content=”no-cache” />
<META http-equiv=”Cache-Control” content=”no-cache” />
<META HTTP-EQUIV=”expires” CONTENT=”Wed, 26 Feb 2000 08:21:57 GMT” />

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@ray326Aug 02.2006 — It's a non-looping animation? You could serve it dynamically with a timestamp number as part of the name to make it unique each time. (myani20060801201435.gif)
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@lpragauthorAug 02.2006 — It's a non-looping animation? You could serve it dynamically with a timestamp number as part of the name to make it unique each time. (myani20060801201435.gif)[/QUOTE]

Please explain ...

The gif repeats the same motions over and over.

That's a looping animation?

So, how can I force it to reload each time the page is loaded,

so it does not stall?
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@ray326Aug 02.2006 — Does this happen with all browsers?
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@lpragauthorAug 02.2006 — Does this happen with all browsers?[/QUOTE]

Hello,

I'm not sure.

With the Firefox I'm using, yes:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8.0.5) Gecko/20060719 Firefox/1.5.0.5

With Microsoft IE I use to test with, no.

I don't have any other browsers on my box.
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@pacerierAug 05.2006 — i never heard of this problem before but you can try to reload the image src:
[code=html]<body onload="document.picture.src='yourani.gif';">[/code]

does it work?
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@lpragauthorAug 06.2006 — i never heard of this problem before but you can try to reload the image src:
[code=html]<body onload="document.picture.src='yourani.gif';">[/code]

does it work?[/QUOTE]

Hello,

Thanks.

Before I got your above post, I solved the problem of forcing a "no cache"

in Firefox by adding an extra head section at the end of the file:

</font></center></body><head><meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache"></head></html>
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