Form input text field cache

Cork Skate

Form input text field cache ???

Lads ..... i want to create a form for a site that will be used on a generic PC, (just one login for everyone) .... and i want to have a text field where the user inputs a search query but i dont want a record/history of what has been searched for before in there.

Where is the cache stored for all of the previously searched items ?

aidan_walsh

Are you using GenericBrowser 9.0.5.64.14 with or without SeviceSuperDuperAdd-OnPackieThingy 3?

Cork Skate

If that was you asking for more info about the browser then i was kinda hoping to just run a batch file in Win XP when user logs in ... i.e. didn't want to change the browser settings if possible.

Can you help ??

Syth

Edit -> Preferences -> Privacy -> Saved Form Information. Uncheck that box.

(Looking at the fox through glass means Edit -> Preference converted to Tools -> Options)*

Don't know how to do that on IE. If you have control of the machin (and hence the browser), then use Firefox (since you now know how to do what you want). If however you don't have control over this and you want some way of hijacking someone's browser so that the form data is not stored, then forget about it. It's unethical to do something like that and someone will find a way.

* Yes that means using firefox on Windows

Cork Skate

Sorry, i should have said this .... Tools - Internet Options - Content - Auto Complete and Clear Forms is the way it is done, on IE 6.0.2 anyway .... but where is this info stored, thats what i am after !!

Cork Skate

Cork Skate wrote:

Tools - Internet Options - Content - Auto Complete and Clear Forms

Or even if i know that command, i could execute that in a batch file !!

Syth

One way of trying to find out where that info is stored would be to input something to some site (Google say), and then search for all files modified in the last few minutes, then search each of those files for the text you entered into google. That'll get rid of all those 'hot lesbian porn' things you searched for.

Hobbes

Syth wrote:

If however you don't have control over this and you want some way of hijacking someone's browser so that the form data is not stored, then forget about it. It's unethical to do something like that and someone will find a way.

Actually banks are required to stop people saving form data (login information), so there is a way to do this.

Cork Skate

Syth wrote:

That'll get rid of all those 'hot lesbian porn' things you searched for.

Ahh ... settle down there lad !!

Syth wrote:

One way of trying to find out where that info is stored would be to input something to some site (Google say), and then search for all files modified in the last few minutes, then search each of those files for the text you entered into google.

I have tried that and haven't had any success.

Syth

Hobbes wrote:

Actually banks are required to stop people saving form data (login information), so there is a way to do this.

Really? Is that law? Or their policy? How do they do it? How can they make sure it would work for all browsers? Why do they have to do it?

Cork Slate wrote:

I have tried that and haven't had any success.

Hmmm sound like the data is probably encripted or scrambled somehow. There is a way of getting it. If you know enough about computers you can get them to do pretty much anything. Plus now it's a challenge. Some ideas: put some stuff in a text box, copy all the files that were modified in the last few minutes. Do it again. Try to find differences between all the files. (This is where I like inbuilt unix commands like diff ). Or just lots of googling. Unfortunatly we're getting into the complicated stuff that would take you a while to hack, it's possible and you'd probably learn. (Great way of freaking out non-techies ). Depends on how much you need to do this.