How to clear the cache used by revBrowser?

Eric Chatonet eric.chatonet at sosmartsoftware.com
Wed Oct 22 15:23:39 EDT 2008


Bonsoir Ben,

Sorry if it was a bad thought.
I think you could send an email to Chris Bonhert from Altuit to get  
the right answer.
I don't want to expose his email here but I think you can write me  
off-list to get it and Chris will not be angry :-)

Le 22 oct. 08 à 21:15, Ben Rubinstein a écrit :

> Eric Chatonet wrote:
>> Bonjour Ben,
>> Have a look at the cachedUrls.
>> Not tested, but I would think they are there, e.g. in RAM :-)
>> If it is the case the unload command will be your friend...
>
> Bonjour Eric,
>
>
> Thanks for the response, but unfortunately the cachedURLs deal only  
> with the data loaded through Transcript.  RevBrowwser is quite  
> unconnected to this, being an external wrapped around (in the case  
> of Mac) the webkit framework.
>
> RevBrowser caches pages, swfs etc; and this cache persists between  
> launches of the app.  It must be stored somewhere on disk, but I  
> can't now locate where. When webkit is wrapped in a application,  
> such as Safari, the application provides a user interface that  
> invokes hooks to empty the cache; but the Rev external that wraps  
> webkit to make revBrowser provides no way to access this  
> functionality; so I'm trying to figure out where the cache is  
> stored, so I can trash it manually.  (Safari itself is no help -  
> it's wrapped around its own instance of webkit, and is unconnected.)
>
> Does anyone know where the cache is located?
>
> Many thanks,

Best regards from Paris,
Eric Chatonet.
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