[Web4lib] Deleting cached web files in IE6

[Micah Stevens]

(insert derogatory Microsoft comment here)

Anything's possible with software. It's just how the developer designs 
it. If IE worked as it should there wouldn't be a thriving business of  
aftermarket cache cleaners.

-Micah

Stacy Pober wrote:
> 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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