I am writing a Java application that needs to view the browser cache.Does anyone know of any existing java classes to read Firefox,Internet Explorer and/or Opera caches?Failing that, are there any documents that describe the respectivefile formats?Thanks,Steve

On Apr 4, 7:40 am, "newelli...@gmail.com" <newelli...@gmail.com>wrote:> I am writing a Java application that needs to view the browser cache.> Does anyone know of any existing java classes to read Firefox,> Internet Explorer and/or Opera caches?>> Failing that, are there any documents that describe the respective> file formats?>> Thanks,>> SteveAs a followup, I don't really need to reconstruct browser history, oranything like that.  I simply want to extract any images that may becached, along with whatever information I can get about those images.Thanks,Steve

newellista@gmail.com wrote:> On Apr 4, 7:40 am, "newelli...@gmail.com" <newelli...@gmail.com>> wrote:>> I am writing a Java application that needs to view the browser cache.>> Does anyone know of any existing java classes to read Firefox,>> Internet Explorer and/or Opera caches?>>>> Failing that, are there any documents that describe the respective>> file formats?>>> As a followup, I don't really need to reconstruct browser history, or> anything like that.  I simply want to extract any images that may be> cached, along with whatever information I can get about those images.Image file formats are well documented.  You should have no problem googling them up.Browser caches are a directories on the hard drive, typically.  There is no special "format".  You could just use the File classes to snuffle around those directories.-- Lew

On Apr 4, 8:09 am, Lew <l...@nospam.lewscanon.com> wrote:
> newelli...@gmail.com wrote:
> > On Apr 4, 7:40 am, "newelli...@gmail.com" <newelli...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >> I am writing a Java application that needs to view the browser cache.
> >> Does anyone know of any existing java classes to read Firefox,
> >> Internet Explorer and/or Opera caches?
>
> >> Failing that, are there any documents that describe the respective
> >> file formats?
>
> > As a followup, I don't really need to reconstruct browser history, or
> > anything like that.  I simply want to extract any images that may be
> > cached, along with whatever information I can get about those images.
>
> Image file formats are well documented.  You should have no problem googling
> them up.
>
> Browser caches are a directories on the hard drive, typically.  There is no
> special "format".  You could just use the File classes to snuffle around those
> directories.
>
> --
> Lew
Thanks for the response, but actually, the browser caches are not
simply image files.  For example, Safari on the Mac, stores them as
NSArchiver files, Mozilla stores them in some kind of binary map
system, while IE stores them in some hidden file/directory somewhere.

Steve

newellista@gmail.com wrote:> Thanks for the response, but actually, the browser caches are not> simply image files.  For example, Safari on the Mac, stores them as> NSArchiver files, Mozilla stores them in some kind of binary map> system, while IE stores them in some hidden file/directory somewhere.IE's browser cache is not necessarily a hidden directory.  Firefox also uses a directory.  I was not familiar with the other two.I guess you'll have to research Safari's and Mozilla's structures.-- Lew