*resubmitted with the offending paragraph removed, thanks for your patience, O phearable one.* Greetings all, Apologies if it has already been known or was discussed earlier. I see no mention in the archive, and it's such an obvious thing... In the Netscape Navigator 3.x and Communicator 4.x installations at my school, where all users share a common login, Navigator seems to write a 'nsformXX.tmp' file when a user fills out a form on a webpage. This file contains the fields the user filled in as plaintext, and looks like this: Content-type: multipart/form-data; boundary=---------------------------158841797149 Content-Length: 108 -----------------------------158841797149 Content-Disposition: form-data; name="username" joe_user -----------------------------158841797149 Content-Disposition: form-data; name="password" password -----------------------------158841797149-- etc... Scanning through the networked drives brought forth over 1000 such files, dating back months; most with complete login and password information to users' web mail accounts, personal homepages, and even a few credit-card numbers. Setting memory / disk cache to various settings, including "0" didn't seem to fix the problem, nor did clearing the cache. Also, not all forms seem to cause this write-to-disk activity, and the location of these files almost always seems to be in the temp directory specified in autoexec.bat I've seen this happen on machines running Win 3.1, 95, 98 and NT4 (SP3). I haven't had an opportunity to test a Mac, and my Linux box doesn't seem to be affected. So far, the only workaround I've used is to make sure all such files are deleted on shutdown, but that hardly helps the unknowing school/public library user much.. Any ideas? Kind regards, Kelani - kelani - -+- http://kelani.com -+- v7 photorealistic - interactive
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