how do delete all of the user's Temporary Internet Files?

Betty_S

hi,
I have a site with a flash object. IE7 keep caching the photos of the flash.
i tried clearstatcache() but it didn't help!

what to do?!😕

thanks.

HalfaBee

clearstatcache() doesn't do anything to browsers or how files are cached.

You will need to send the correct headers to do this.
If you have control via .htaccess have a look here
http://www.askapache.com/htaccess/speed-up-sites-with-htaccess-caching.html

Betty_S

I will check it out

thanks

Betty_S

2 questions:

1-will that clear the?:

<FilesMatch ".(html|htm|php)$">
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=0, private, proxy-revalidate"
</FilesMatch>

2-do I write this in the htaccess?:
-enable-module=expires
-enable-module=header

thanks!

HalfaBee

In your case

<FilesMatch ".(php|cgi|pl|htm)$">
ExpiresDefault A0
Header set Cache-Control "no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, max-age=0"
Header set Pragma "no-cache"
</FilesMatch>

change the file extensions to any you don't want cached.
(php|cgi|pl|htm)
are the file extensions in the the above example.

Betty_S

sorry but it didn't help

Betty_S

how do I delete temporary internet files via php

Betty_S

how do delete all of the user's Temporary Internet Files?

suntra

Do you want your script to clear a user's temporary folder ?! That is totally impossible !

The only possible thing is to send some headers to prevent the page from being cached (see www.php.net/header), or to ask the user himself to clear his folder !

bradgrafelman

Uhh.. what do you mean?

You can try to tell the browser not to cache the current page (probably with a Pragma header and whatnot).

As for other files... you don't honestly thing there's any way of causing a user's browser to start deleting files off their hard drive, do you?

HalfaBee

Try clearing the cached data in IE7, tools->internet options somewhere

MarkR

You cannot delete any of the users files, whether they're temporary or internet, or any other kind - for reasons which I hope should be obvious!

Mark