[2774] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: A problem with Navigator's cache
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jordi \"=?iso-8859-1?Q?Matem=E0tic)
Fri Aug 23 09:52:17 1996
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 14:15:20 -0100
From: "Jordi \"=?iso-8859-1?Q?Matem=E0tic?=\" Salvat" <jordi@webarna.com>
To: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu, Ian Dunkin <imd1707@ggr.co.uk>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
> When a PC Navigator user attempts to access such a page, and
> authenticates successfully, the document is retrieved and displayed, an=
d
> cached to their local disk. This user now switches the PC off, and
> leaves. Another user switches the PC back on, and fires up Navigator.
> She attempts to access the same document. Navigator pulls it back for
> her from the cache, without authentication.
> =
Maybe SSL can help... NS 3.0 has an option in "Network
Preferences/Chach=E9" to disallow persistent caching of documents
retrieved through SSL.
I don't know what the behaviour of NS 2.x is in that scenario.
Faithfully,
-- =
Jordi Salvat i Alabart
Web Edicions Barcelona
edicions i consultoria Internet
http://www.webarna.com
