# Disable perspective image component cache **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition Early Access\ **Created:** [February 10, 2022, 3:43pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/disable-perspective-image-component-cache/55987 "2022-02-10T15:43:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![nader.chinichian](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/nader.chinichian/32/9261_2.png) [@nader.chinichian](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/nader.chinichian)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2022, 3:43pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/disable-perspective-image-component-cache/55987/1 "2022-02-10T15:43:00Z")
Hi I try to load a different image from “Inductive Automation\Ignition\webserver\webapps\main” but when i change the old image with the new one the image component only loads the old one. If I open the page in new browser for the first time it is ok and cache it forever. Is there any way to disable the caching system of this component? ---
**Author:** ![paul-griffith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paul-griffith/32/37249_2.png) [@paul-griffith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/paul-griffith)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2022, 5:18pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/disable-perspective-image-component-cache/55987/2 "2022-02-10T17:18:49Z")
This is either up to your browser or the (undocumented, unsupported) inadvertent Jetty webserver hosting mechanism. _That said_, you could try a classic lazy strategy; make the source path dynamic by appending a nonsense query parameter, e.g. add a binding like this: `"path/to/image?q=" + toMillis(now(0))` ---
**Author:** ![nader.chinichian](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/nader.chinichian/32/9261_2.png) [@nader.chinichian](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/nader.chinichian)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2022, 7:36pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/disable-perspective-image-component-cache/55987/3 "2022-02-10T19:36:28Z")
Thanks, Paul, I just face another problem, when I upload a file in the gateway file system the next time I want to upload and overwrite the file I get this error which file is open and used by java.exe. `> java.io.FileNotFoundException: java.io.FileNotFoundException: webserver\webapps\main\User Image\nader.png (The requested operation cannot be performed on a file with a user-mapped section open)` I simply want to save user profile pictures and user can change their user profile picture. ```auto basePath = 'webserver/webapps/main/User Image/' extension = event.file.name.split(".")[-1] username = self.session.props.auth.user.userName event.file.copyTo(basePath + username + "." + extension) ``` ---
**Author:** ![paul-griffith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paul-griffith/32/37249_2.png) [@paul-griffith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/paul-griffith)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2022, 3:39am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/disable-perspective-image-component-cache/55987/4 "2022-02-11T03:39:51Z")
Yes. That’s a known issue with the webserver/webapps hosting. It’s also, and I can’t understate this, not something we care to fix. The webserver/webapps hosting method _only works by accident_. It is not something we explicitly support or guarantee to work between versions. If you want to expose a folder via Ignition’s webserver, use a Webdev mounted folder. ---
**Author:** ![nader.chinichian](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/nader.chinichian/32/9261_2.png) [@nader.chinichian](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/nader.chinichian)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2022, 5:57am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/disable-perspective-image-component-cache/55987/5 "2022-02-11T05:57:36Z")
Is there any option to use image management instead? Can I push image file into it by python? ---
**Author:** ![victordcq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f6c823/32.png) [@victordcq](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/victordcq)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2022, 10:37am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/disable-perspective-image-component-cache/55987/6 "2022-02-11T10:37:50Z")
> [@paul-griffith](#): > > only works by accident sorry im on lunch break xd beginner dev: it doesnt work. 😕 intermediat dev: it works somehow, no idea how. 🤔 bethesda dev: it clearly works and that is a feature not a bug 🤥 🤪 pro dev: it works. 🧐 igntion dev: it works and this random features does too. 🤯 ---
**Author:** ![paul-griffith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paul-griffith/32/37249_2.png) [@paul-griffith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/paul-griffith)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2022, 3:28pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/disable-perspective-image-component-cache/55987/7 "2022-02-11T15:28:02Z")
> [@nader.chinichian](#): > > Can I push image file into it by python? You can, but it's going to take some doing via scripting. The preferred method to have dynamic input/output of images would be a database with BLOB columns. If that's not an option, you can push whatever files you want into a Webdev mounted folder. Image management has some performance concerns (by necessity, it's using the internal DB that's also responsible for all of Ignition's configuration - the more contention you can avoid on the IDB, the better) that mean that I'd avoid it for particularly busy systems. ---
**Author:** ![nader.chinichian](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/nader.chinichian/32/9261_2.png) [@nader.chinichian](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/nader.chinichian)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2022, 4:13pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/disable-perspective-image-component-cache/55987/8 "2022-02-11T16:13:01Z")
But I saw in one of your post that using BLOB and converting it to base64 and bind it to image SRC cause performance issue specially for desinger.(put a lot of chars in the SRC property) I already did that method for small images but Im looking for best option. ---
**Author:** ![paul-griffith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paul-griffith/32/37249_2.png) [@paul-griffith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/paul-griffith)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2022, 4:17pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/disable-perspective-image-component-cache/55987/9 "2022-02-11T16:17:22Z")
The _best_ option (in my opinion) would be a proper webserver connected to a DB to store images, with its own caching mechanism, on the same host as the gateway, behind a reverse proxy so that external connections only see a single port. You can get a lot of the benefits of that approach by using Webdev (a _Python_ endpoint) attached to a DB. You’ll want to implement your own caching so you’re not always fetching each image from the database, but this could be quite performant. I _do_ think that there’s room for Ignition to make this better, and I filed a ticket internally a while back for us to do exactly that. However, it’s still incubating - we’re figuring out exactly what approach we want to take. ---
**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2022, 7:19pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/disable-perspective-image-component-cache/55987/10 "2022-04-02T19:19:47Z")
Ahem: > [@Automation Professionals' Blob Server Module](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/automation-professionals-blob-server-module/57970): > > Automation Professionals is pleased to announce an alpha release of its new Blob Server Module. Available only for Ignition v8.1, here. The Blob Server Module provides a simple way to deliver images, PDF files, or other binary content from a database to your Perspective clients or other web applications. Without needing the WebDev module. All you need is a Named Query that has appropriate security settings and returns a single row with two columns: Content, and ContentType. Modest documentati… { /shameless plug }