How to force a web browser to cache Images

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A Last-Modified and Expires header might also be useful additions.

Your server should also check for requests featuring an If-Modified-Since header, and return a 304 Not Modified response if possible to speed things along.

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Updated on March 08, 2020

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    The Unknown about 4 years

    I am writing a small application which serves images from the local computer, so they can be accessed as http://localhost:12345/something/something (which returns a jpeg).

    How can I force the browser to cache this, so only a single request would be sent to the server. Would this header be sufficient

    HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    Cache-Control: public, max-age=99936000
    Content-Length: 123456
    Content-Type: image/jpeg
    

    This seems to work with Firefox 3.x but would it be sufficient globally for other browser as well?