[Web4lib] Deleting cached web files in IE6

[Stacy Pober]

Today, one of our staff could not get to a Gale database using the IE  
and the usual link. She could get to it when using Firefox.  The page  
she retrieved in IE was a trial database login for a different  
Galegroup database.

Deleting the "Temporary Internet Files" didn't solve the problem, and  
I didn't want to delete every cookie.  Viewing the remaining IE  
internet files, showed the Gale-related cookies, but the puzzling  
thing was that there were non-cookie Gale files that had not been  
deleted when the file cache was cleared. Almost all the other  
non-cookie files were gone, but not the Gale-related ones.

There were four oddly named Gale-related files that appeared to be  
images and html files. They did not have that "Cookie:" prefix in the  
Internet Address column. It would be nice if I looked more closely at  
them, particularly their specific location, but I just kind of scanned  
the names and thought "Hmmm, that's odd." and ditched them.

So my question is: why would some non-cookie files be retained after a  
user clicks on "Delete Files"?

Incidentally, the browser was set to an unrelated page on another site  
when the temp. internet files were deleted, so that's not the cause.

The initial problem was resolved, so I'm just wondering why some  
non-cookie files would escape being deleted through the normal "Delete  
Files" click.

--
Stacy Pober
Information Alchemist
Manhattan College
O'Malley Library
Riverdale, NY 10471
stacy.pober at manhattan.edu

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