Re: cache cookies?

[Kee Hinckley <nazgul () SOMEWHERE COM>]

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At 9:56 PM +0800 12/12/00, cypherstar wrote:
> Has this been sighted already?
>
> or is it snakeoil?
>
> 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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