The reason smileys redownload all the time, at least in Opera.

**anon** · 11-25-2010, 06:20 PM

Smileys in the reply page and posts point to this kind of URL:

Code:

http://filesharingtalk.com/vb3/images/smilies/SMILEYNAME.gif

Note the "/vb3". When your browser tries to GET that, it receives an HTTP 301 Moved Permanently reply, telling it to go to the same URL, just without the "/vb3" part. This causes smileys to refresh every time a page using them is loaded, which is annoying and causes lag.

I tested this in Opera 10.63 only, so far, set to cache images permanently. I remember pointing it out in the past, and Cabalo (who I think uses Chrome) told me it didn't happen on his computer.