[18065] in bugtraq
Re: cache cookies?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kee Hinckley)
Wed Dec 13 22:35:39 2000
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Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 22:15:23 -0500
Reply-To: Kee Hinckley <nazgul@SOMEWHERE.COM>
From: Kee Hinckley <nazgul@SOMEWHERE.COM>
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At 9:56 PM +0800 12/12/00, cypherstar wrote:
>Has this been sighted already?
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>or is it snakeoil?
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>http://www.princeton.edu/pr/news/00/q4/1205-browser.htm
Ask and you shall receive.
http://www.somewhere.com/software/javascript/cache.html
I wrote that based on the a ZDNet article about the Princeton work.
I don't actually attempt to determine whether the image has been
cached, but I calculate the time it takes to load it, and it's pretty
clear that detecting cached images via JavaScript is trivial.
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Kee Hinckley - Somewhere.Com, LLC - Cyberspace Architects
Now Playing - Folk, Rock, odd stuff - http://www.somewhere.com/playlist.cgi
I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.
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