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#13226 Always CACHE disabled on Firefox when developing

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Latest post by nicholas on Saturday, 11 August 2012 02:28 CDT

Friday, 10 August 2012 20:33 CDT

user9198
Related to the post: #13222 – Problem with Protecting administrator back-end with a password

Where said:
Great! You can always clear Firefox' cache, quit it and restart it. When you try accessing your site again it will ask you for the username and password. I remember I had to do that a lot when I was developing and testing this feature :)


Hi, I´m using the following extensions for Firefox and setting 'Cache' always disabled during development tasks:

CacheToogle 0.6 and/or Empty Cache Button 1.9

Hope this helps,
Rgrds,

Saturday, 11 August 2012 02:28 CDT

nicholas
These disable the page and media files cache. The credentials are cached nonetheless. As I told you, it would be stupid for a browser not to cache them. Think about going to your site's back-end and having to enter a username and password. Next click you do, again asks you for a username and password. One more click and it asks you for a username and password. Click on the next page and it again asks you for a username and password. Are you pissed off yet? Browser makers know that you are that's why they cache the credentials. Please note that I really do know what I am talking about. If you don't believe me, despite you –by your own tests– having verified what I am saying, you can always not ask for my assistance and try to find out a solution by yourself. Firefox has all the necessary tools, including Firebug, to debug HTTP connections. This is what I did (in FF and Chrome) when you reported your issue. I made sure it's not a problem with the .htaccess generated and gave you the troubleshooting steps. So, from now on, you know how to debug this by yourself.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

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