Web pages not being saved to my browser cache

[erniecamacho]

IE 6. All temporary internet files are going to the default location.

I used to be able to find all web pages I visited in this cache. Now, some
pages are not there. I can find a reference to the page in index.dat, and
because of that it shows up in IE's view files link (tools/internet
options/general tab/settings button/view files), but the .htm file is not in
there at all.

Any idea why this is happening? This doesn't happen to all web pages, but
to some. Specifically, I'm viewing a bulletin board in www.ezboard.com. I
can see some of the pages generated as I browse, but the lowest level, where
the messages are displayed, don't save to my PC, even when I look while the
page is still up. BTW I use the Ztree file browser so I can see everything
in that cache branch.

Any help would be appreciated.

Ernie

 

[erniecamacho]

My original post wasn't quite correct. I did some more testing:
- deleted all files in the cache branch
- deleted the index.dat file (it was then recreated) (btw, I found the
trick to do this deletion just now)
- started IE
- went to the website where I know I'm having the problem, and viewed some
pages that haven't been saving.

I found that there were indeed files in my cache, but:
- they did not have the name of the page (they had a shorter name), and
they had no file exension.
- the contents weren't text. It looked like an encoded file.

I'm suspecting a patch to IE is causing this. I've got all the security
patches for XP installed from MS.

Again, any ideas are welcome.

Ernie
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[erniecamacho]

To continue my testing, the only setting I found in IE that might affect
this problem is the advanced setting: Do not save encrypted pages to disk.
I have this box unchecked. When I first encountered this problem, I thought
that the web site was encrypting their pages, but their support folks told
me that they have made no changes to their system. I don't see why they'd
encrypt bulletin board messages anyway.

If you want to test this yourself, go to this page:
http://pub247.ezboard.com/fsonomawingsbbfrm2.showMessage?topicID=630.topic
and see if it ends up on your computer as a text .htm page, or as an
encrypted no-extension page.

Ernie
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[Robert Aldwinckle]

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If you want to test this yourself, go to this page:
http://pub247.ezboard.com/fsonomawingsbbfrm2.showMessage?topicID=630.topic
and see if it ends up on your computer as a text .htm page, or as an
encrypted no-extension page.

Look in your index.dat for a reference to that URL
and see if you see something like this:

<example>
http://pub247.ezboard.com/fsonomawingsbbfrm2.showMessage?topicID=630.topic fsonomawingsbbfrm2[1] HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Content-Type: text/html
Keep-Alive: timeout=120, max=120
Content-Encoding: gzip
Content-Length: 3624
</example>

The Content-Encoding: gzip line suggests that the page is not encrypted
but compressed.

BTW something relevant that you will see with the TIF viewer (Alt-T,O,Alt-S,V)
is that the page has an expiry time. I'm not sure why my cache has not deleted
it yet. It probably has something to do either with the fact that I use CacheSentry
(although I thought that IE was still responsible for deletions through expiry)
or it may have been the case that I had the file open offline while it was still fresh.

In any case the only piece that is missing a day later is an ad.
E.g., I got prompted that the page was not available offline, replied Stay Offline
and got all the text and scripts, in particular the text from the compressed file.


HTH

Robert Aldwinckle
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