Viewing browser cache

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newellista@gmail.com - 04 Apr 2007 14:40 GMT

I am writing a Java application that needs to view the browser cache.
Does anyone know of any existing java classes to read Firefox,
Internet Explorer and/or Opera caches?

Failing that, are there any documents that describe the respective
file formats?

Thanks,

Steve

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newellista@gmail.com - 04 Apr 2007 14:50 GMT

On Apr 4, 7:40 am, "newelli...@gmail.com" <newelli...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> I am writing a Java application that needs to view the browser cache.
> Does anyone know of any existing java classes to read Firefox,
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> Steve

As a followup, I don't really need to reconstruct browser history, or
anything like that. I simply want to extract any images that may be
cached, along with whatever information I can get about those images.

Thanks,

Steve

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Lew - 04 Apr 2007 15:09 GMT

> On Apr 4, 7:40 am, "newelli...@gmail.com" <newelli...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> anything like that. I simply want to extract any images that may be
> cached, along with whatever information I can get about those images.

Image file formats are well documented. You should have no problem googling
them up.

Browser caches are a directories on the hard drive, typically. There is no
special "format". You could just use the File classes to snuffle around those
directories.

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newellista@gmail.com - 04 Apr 2007 23:29 GMT

> newelli...@gmail.com wrote:
> > On Apr 4, 7:40 am, "newelli...@gmail.com" <newelli...@gmail.com>
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> Lew

Thanks for the response, but actually, the browser caches are not
simply image files. For example, Safari on the Mac, stores them as
NSArchiver files, Mozilla stores them in some kind of binary map
system, while IE stores them in some hidden file/directory somewhere.

Steve

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Lew - 04 Apr 2007 23:41 GMT

> Thanks for the response, but actually, the browser caches are not
> simply image files. For example, Safari on the Mac, stores them as
> NSArchiver files, Mozilla stores them in some kind of binary map
> system, while IE stores them in some hidden file/directory somewhere.

IE's browser cache is not necessarily a hidden directory. Firefox also uses a
directory. I was not familiar with the other two.

I guess you'll have to research Safari's and Mozilla's structures.

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