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joachim shotter
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History cleaning development

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Hi I am designing a site for a domestic violence organisation and have an issue that needs fixing or developing. I have never seen what I’m am proposing used before.

As the user is most likely to be suffering from domestic violence they may only be able to access the computer for a shot amount of time. As you know browsers leave a history of the sites visited, data and images. These images, data etc need to be deleted from the pc so there is no trace of the site visit.

The scenario is that a person is being abused and not in control of the house hold and pc. The abuser is in control of the pc and knows what is on there. (They are not a professional). But the abuser will know what has been accessed and if they find a site about domestic violence in the cache, they may use this as reason for making another attack.

1. Now the easy option is to leave instructions for the user on how to do so. (This will be done) But time consuming.

2. Also links to spywear and history deletion programs are also an option. But not the best as they will have to be installed and that aging leaves a problem of pc usage. As new programs will be noticed etc………

3. But what I would like is a link within the site which deletes all the files and history of the site? The files can be arranged so they all have the same prefix which will make it easier to delete in the first instance and maybe this function.

Is this possible? Can you do it? That’s the challenge.

As this is a site for general users this will have to work on all browser platforms and both pc and mac compauters.

If you have any ideas and think you can help please email me. mailto:jo@bluejam.com

Yours Joachim Shotter http://www.bluejam.com
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Post by feyd »

unfortunately no, it's not possible. That'd be a major security hole in any browser if it were. Sorry.
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Post by joachim shotter »

yeah this seems to be the case. Not very good really. But Im goning through some suggestions that will help a little.

Thanks all the same :wink:
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One thing you could do is send people to a benign looking page, pretty much unrelated to the topic. The page could have a XMLHTTP or other similar derivative engines that can then request the actual pages. A gateway if you will. It's quite DHTML heavy then, but overall crossbrowser, and there is no history stored, only some cached images (which should be kept to a bare minimum anyways). All the pages could also be equiped with a quick-key that changes the page to a benign page.

A complicated solution, but one that fits most of your wishes.
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Post by joachim shotter »

Thanks for the replys. I have alot of suggestion and trying to work out the best solution. It's a but crap that this cant be done yet. But im sure over time someone will come up with an answer. I will be using SSL on the mail forms and possibly the site images being stored on a shadow site. So they dont have the sites URL. But yes image kept to a low. As much text based data as possible.

Thanks and if anyone comes up with the answer please let all these types of services know. It's needed bad.

Respect :wink:
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