Netscape cache files

[Isabel Danforth]

We have saved to disk things such as the login for the nytimes web page.
Aren't these items saved as a cookie?   Is it possible to save cookies as
we set up the machine, and then to disable saving of cookies after that?

Isabel

At 07:41 AM 1/21/98 -0800, Peter C. Gorman wrote:
>Colleen White writes:
>
>>I would like to hear what other libraries are doing with their Netscape
>>cache files. There is some feeling in our agency that cache needs to be
>>emptied frequently and continually. We use Netscape 3 with Windows95 on
>>Pentium 166 computers with 2G hard drives. We have protected our public
>>access computers with Full Armor which precludes the public from
>>accessing the cache files to see what's in them, but some people here
>>feel that you have to empty cache to enhance performance. Is this an
>>issue or not?
>
>We delete the cache, history, and cookies files each time a user quits
>Netscape (we then automagically restart Netscape).
>
>>Is there a problem with setting both the memory cache and the disk cache
>>to 0? Would you recommend it or not?
>
>As others have mentioned, there is a real performance benefit to having a
>cache. We have also experienced Strange Netscape Behavior when the caches
>have been set to 0.
>
>PG
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>Peter C. Gorman
>University of Wisconsin
>General Library System
>Automation Services
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