Re: Netscape History file

From: William D. Colburn (aka Schlake) (wcolburnat_private)
Date: Wed Aug 08 2001 - 10:26:40 PDT

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    The last time I needed to do this I just changed the expire time in the
    browser to a long time ago (thousands of days) and it let me see the
    entire history list.
    
    On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 07:49:54PM -0700, Manuel Beltran wrote:
    > The Netscape history file keeps track of places you have been, including
    > dates.  I have found an entry in the history file that is very significant
    > to my case, but Netscape seems to have marked it as expired and I cannot get
    > the NS History viewer to display the entry.  I can see it with strings,
    > gHex, BinText, etc, but I cannot get the date info I need this way since the
    > date field is in binary.
    > 
    > Is there a viewer that anyone knows of that will let me review the entire
    > contents of the history file (netscape.hst - Win32, history.dat - Unix), in
    > its entirety?  Seems to me that this would be a very common tool to have.
    > We have become spoiled by the lack of privacy in IE and ease with which this
    > info can be had, so I suspect that there are not too many tools out there
    > for NS.  An EnCase escript would be nice :)
    
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    William Colburn, "Sysprog" <wcolburnat_private>
    Computer Center, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
    http://www.nmt.edu/tcc/     http://www.nmt.edu/~wcolburn
    
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