How to force a web browser NOT to cache images

Question

Background

I am writing and using a very simple CGI-based (Perl) content management tool for two pro-bono websites. It provides the website administrator with HTML

Answer 1

I assume original question regards images stored with some text info. So, if you have access to a text context when generating src=... url, consider store/use CRC32 of image bytes instead of meaningless random or time stamp. Then, if the page with plenty of images is displaying, only updated images will be reloaded. Eventually, if CRC storing is impossible, it can be computed and appended to the url at runtime.