[WEB4LIB] Re: Browser cache size and maintenance

Isabel Danforth danforth at tiac.net
Thu Mar 4 22:04:00 EST 1999


We also keep bookmark.htm, prefs.js, history and cookies all read only.
That way we can even enable cookies on the browser, but nothing is kept
when netscape is closed.

Isabel

At 06:57 PM 3/4/99 -0800, John T. Benedetto wrote:
>On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Robert Sullivan wrote:
>
>> For those of you with secured public computers:
>> 
>> Do you go around at regular intervals and clear your browser cache files so
>> your disk doesn't become clogged?  How do you handle it when it means
undoing
>> and redoing the security?
>
>Here at UNM, our Fortres settings prevent any files from being saved to
>the hard drive.  This seems to have applied to Netscape's cache directory
>as well.
>
>- John
>
>  =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
>   John Thomas Benedetto, User Support Analyst II       jbenedet at unm.edu
>   Centennial Science & Engineering Library,               (505)277-2598
>   University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM  87131-1466
>
>
>
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