What must I do to make content such as images served over HTTPS be cached client-side?

Question

I am using Tomcat as a server and Internet Explorer 6 as a browser. A web page in our app has about 75 images. We are using SSL. It seems to be very slow at loading all the cont

Answer 1

If a lot of those 75 images are icons or images that appear on every page, you can use CSS sprites to drastically reduce the number of HTTP requests and thus load the page faster:

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/sprites/