# Loader question

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loader-question/257541
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [April 15, 2008, 5:21am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loader-question/257541 "2008-04-15T05:21:14Z")
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### Author: ![Groady](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/groady/32/3750_2.png) [@Groady](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Groady)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2008, 5:21am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loader-question/257541/1 "2008-04-15T05:21:14Z")

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Was wondering if anyone can enlighten me on whether flash caches images when loaded with the Loader class.

A project I am working on will be pulling in lots of images externally so was curious if flash will re-download the images everytime a user visits my site or caches them like a web browser does.

Also is flash smart enough to know if it has recently loaded an image from a specific url? For example if you have a custom class which loads an external image. Will flash download the image everytime that class is instanciated?