Re: how do I keep a browser from caching files

To: Pete Shipley <shipley@dis.org>
Subject: Re: how do I keep a browser from caching files
From: Jeff Weinstein <jsw@netscape.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 23:55:44 -0700
CC: www-security <www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu>
Organization: Netscape Communications Corp.
References: <9604230835.AA10631@silogic.fr> <199604231242.FAA06144@merde.dis.org>
Reply-To: jsw@netscape.com

Pete Shipley wrote:
> 
> (Re: netscape)
> 
> >
> >   I would propose another (different) scheme. Usually, browsers do not cache
> }data
> >resulting from a POST operation.
> 
> take a look in the file fat.db located in you cache directory
> 
> >-+-+ Pierre-Yves BONNETAIN (aka Pyb)
> >     Consultant Internet
> 
> you will find all finds of fun stuff including passwords from old forms...

  This has been fixed in the latest Atlas beta, which is on the FTP site
now (sorry, mac version not coming until tomorrow).  Only passwords that
were entered into HTML forms were getting put into the fat.db file.  HTTP
authentication passwords are never written to disk.

	--Jeff

-- 
Jeff Weinstein - Electronic Munitions Specialist
Netscape Communication Corporation
jsw@netscape.com - http://home.netscape.com/people/jsw
Any opinions expressed above are mine.

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Re: how do I keep a browser from caching files

From: pyb@silogic.fr (Pierre-Yves Bonnetain)

Re: how do I keep a browser from caching files

From: Pete Shipley <shipley@dis.org>