(Solved) Simple cache question

[eluser]Eric Cope[/eluser]
The php scripts and images were behind the htaccess which prompted the basic authentication process most browsers support. It wasn't elegant, but it worked for my application.

I had a new idea. Browsers only cache images and html output. You could setup a part of your url like this.

Code:

http://yoururl.com/index.php/imageHandlingController/Function/image.jpg

Then, using mod_rewrite, rewrite image.jpg to image.php, which is a php file designed to authenticate a user and then forward on image.jpg.

That might work. It would take some experimenting. I would experiment outside codeIgniter so you are not fighting CI and Apache and your browser.