Random Number Appended to Images,JS and CSS files

John Kopanas
Sat, 16 Sep 2006 23:30:46 -0000

I am really curious... what is up with the random number being
appended to the query string of calls to JS, CSS and Image files?  At
first I thought it was just for development mode so that files would
not be cached but when I went to my site in production mode the random
number where appended as well.  Does anyone know the design decision
behind this?  Or if the number really is random?

Is their a function to get that random number for when I create my own helpers?

Thanks for your insite.

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