Re: [tlug] Read my Firefox's cache contents on Linux

[Dave M G <martin@example.com>]

Josh, Jim,

Thanks for responding.

I'm a little confused right now about how caching works. Is it possible 
for a web site, by JavaScript or some other method to stop itself from 
being written to a cache?

I tried an experiment where (after backing up), I deleted the contents 
of my cache entirely. Then I went to a web page which has dynamic 
content, and is on the same web site from which I originally got the 
data I'm after.

I closed FireFox and did nothing else. So, in theory, the cache should 
contain only my one visit to that site.

And then I searched for text that I know for a fact to have been on that 
web site because I just looked at it.

And yet, nothing. I can find all sorts of images referenced, from banner 
ads and whatnot, and pretty much anything *except* the main body text of 
the web page in question.

So either I don't know how caches work, or the main bulk of the text on 
the web page is somehow avoiding being cached, or I'm still not 
searching using the right methodology.

Any hints or advice on this?

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Dave M G
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