Is there a way to force browsers to refresh/download images?

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Append a query string with an arbitrary unique number (or time, or version number, etc.):

<img src="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1431512/image.png?80172489074" alt="a cool image" />

This will result in a new request, because of the different URL.

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