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Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 10/15/00 11:37
David Graham wrote:
> "Jonathan N. Little" <lws4art@centralva.net> wrote in message
>>Whether something gets cached or not depends on several factors, browser
>>related, server related and coding. IE caches in hiding folders
>
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> Sorry, what is 'hiding folders'?
>
Sorry, fingers before brain, should be 'hidden'. Windows files have
attribute flags RASH. Folders(AKA Directories) are just files that
contain listings of a collection of filenames.
'R'eadonly - cannot be edited or deleted
'A'rchive - been changed since last backup
'S'ystem - special files used by OS
'H'idden - hide for user when Windows Explorer is on its default
settings of 'Do not show hidden files or folders' and 'Hide protected
operating system files'
>>files retain their file extensions (Windows-centric), but Firefox gives
>>them a coded filename, e.g., 'D9C2D4D6d01' with a hex viewer, like
>>WinBrowse, Hexpert or Norton's Diskedit you can see the files actual
>>contents (either plain text for html, css and js; or binary for images
>>and media and other binary data)
>>
>
> hex viewer?
A file that views the actual source code of a file. Sort of peek inside
a file without having an application 'translate' or format the data,
Google viewers that I listed above for more info.
00000000 FF D8 FF E0 00 10 4A 46-49 46 00 01 01 01 01 2C......JFIF.....,
a peek inside a file show at the beginning--------------------^^^^
an ID tag in the header that is common for a JPG image... Not sure if
this is much use to you but peeking inside a file you can identify what
type of file it is even if it has the wrong/missing file extension.
> I think your expert on this and the trouble is I'm not able to digest a lot
> of it. In idiot terms, when something is cached is it then on my hard disc
> somewhere when the ebrowser is IE and what if it's Firefox?
for both browsers there are two caches, memory and disk. Obviously you
have more disk space than memory, but memory is faster. IE, and Firefox
just use different default folder and formats for their disk caches.
Firefox just give you the ability to browser through both memory and
disk caches, as far as I know IE only lists the disk cache.
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Take care,
Jonathan
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