yeah ofcourse they were static before.. what I rather ment was availible staticly for the user
I use this for hotlinking-protection (so you cant even hotlink by using a script..)
it also might have been interesting for you so users with some pc-knowledge cant look at the images that are intended for the next couple days
recreating the images is only needed if it is vital to keep away bandwidth-hogs
about the expire-time: perhaps with special headers...? I'll look that up
EDIT: header("Cache-Control: .........
