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antiplastik
accessing the browser's cache
Feb 16th, 2008, 3:47pm  
hi all,

does anyone know if there is a way to read the content of the browser's cache and write files in it?
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extrapixel
Re: accessing the browser's cache
Reply #1 - Feb 17th, 2008, 1:56am  
wouldn't this be a serious security issue? by cache do you mean the "temporary internet files"?
maybe a signed applet can give you file-access... not sure about that though.
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taifunbrowser
Re: accessing the browser's cache
Reply #2 - Feb 17th, 2008, 6:04am  
Well, consider something like youtube: Videos are streamed to the internet cache, so that if you revisit a video page 2x in quick succession, it resumes downloads.

Many websites already do this... and it is just about necessary for any sort of online applet game service that requires a decent amount of streamed media...

If someone who has signed applets that have file access before could write a simplified tutorial on what the limits are, the community would be greatly benefited.
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JohnG
Re: accessing the browser's cache
Reply #3 - Feb 17th, 2008, 11:03am  
The browser does the caching for youtube, not the flash code. Browsers can also cache java applets, and will do so on their own.

It's not the websites that do the caching in any way shape or form.
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fjen
Re: accessing the browser's cache
Reply #4 - Feb 17th, 2008, 11:49am  
as far as i know there are two caches involved with applets, the browser-cache and the java-cache. once the applet has loaded any files you fetch from inside the applet will not be passed thru the browser anymore. the applet (java) will load them directly and store them into the java-cache.
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