FLIR images not cached in browser

I can confirm there is no caching in the Drupal 6 version of this module.

Hi

This is a great module and one I am using heavily for a new site, particularly the front page. The site is visibly slow given the generated images are downloaded. Any plans for caching in future releases?

Cheers

I think I may have solved this issue in the version i'm running internally, I'll post my version as the full release in the next few weeks (works starting to die down and these modules become higher priority). Whatever I changed it does appear to take advantage of the image caching mechanism that the current version does not. Glad you like the module though!

Cheers, looking forward to it. Keep up the great work!

Is there any way we could get a dev version sooner? :)

Try this maybe till I can release something.

http://drupal.org/project/textimage

Personally I like this solution better but it's dev for the 6 branch.

Hi

Just wondering if you had made any progress on the caching issue? I am just about to release a new site and would like to hold off until I have some idea if a fix was possible.

I have tried to use text image but it is not a patch on Flir ;)

lol I see that it is not. I'll be hit or miss the next two weeks, it's in the queue though. Fixing the Outline Designer D6 module right now (bit higher priority atm).

:)

May the force be with you, I will wait for an update,

Cheers

try the new version that's out, it might take care of it.

I'm afraid caching is still not working for me, instead it seems to just be generating A LOT of cache images and then doesn't use them.

I cannot tell if caching is working

Images are not being generated in IE though.

odd... well, personally I've switched over to textimage as it's more flexible in implementing directly into themes / other modules. Flir's good for on the fly stuff if you don't want to have to explain how to do the replacements to people but textimage is really good (and not browser dependent). http://drupal.org/project/textimage

I'd like the cache issue to be resolved as well.

@btopro: if you're using textimage these days and do not intend on updating issues for flir, perhaps mark the module as abandoned and let someone else pick it up and support it. It's a great module and I appreciate all your work, but lazy people who could assist, won't unless they know the module isn't actively being maintained.

Any update on this? I think its borderline critical issue as it will kill the performance of a site.

Can you explain how I can test the caching thing myself? I don't know a lot about performance tuning and the like, but I'm keen to fix this issue, I'm just not really sure how to test it myself :)

Ok, thanks to @a_c_m I've been able to test this out now. However, I'm getting HTTP 304 responses, so it appears that the browser /is/ caching the images. The one thing I'm noticing though is that the response from generate.php is quite slow, taking up to 3s to send back a response on a local server.

@a_c_m, are you getting 304's or 200's when you request the images?