[THIN] Re: Clear History bar/cache on a Windows CE device
- From: "Braebaum, Neil" <Neil.Braebaum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 14:58:45 -0000
Oh I don't doubt it - I'm just mildly intrigued with the problem, and a
possibility at solving it technically ;-)
Whether it's the most suitable solution, or not, I'm willing to ignore
at present, if I can find a way to technically get it to work ;-) I'm
willing to ignore true suitability for the time being, whilst there's
still a possibility of being able to easily code it.
Although, I can feel an analogy coming on... where profiles and terminal
servers are concerned - some people would prefer for the base registry
hive loaded to be correct - be it by modifying individual hives, or
configuring default hives. Having always worked with mandatory profiles
for terminal server users, I'm more concerned with the central, initial
hive being generically configured, and minimal, and then having a
mechanism to modify it at will. Although to be truly equitable, were
there to be redundant entries in the initial hive, I would be more
inclined to modify it at source, rather than delete entries dynamically
(and repeatedly).
Neil
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Greenberg [mailto:steveg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 18 December 2003 14:47
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] Re: Clear History bar/cache on a Windows CE device
>
> The trick with embedded WINCE devices though is to get the
> registry setting to be permanent. Being able to do this
> requires acess that the hardware vendor has to include. I
> still recommend getting the hardware vendor to make the
> change and burn it into an image that you can re-flash the
> units with. If the vendor is unwilling they are lame- we have
> done this many times.....
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Braebaum, Neil
> Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2003 6:04 AM
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] Re: Clear History bar/cache on a Windows CE device
>
>
> If you've got HTA support, it would be pretty easy. It would
> have to be called or instantiated on the client, though -
> having said that, the HTA could make itself the home page ;-)
>
> Neil
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Webmail [mailto:web@xxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: 18 December 2003 13:01
> > To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [THIN] Re: Clear History bar/cache on a Windows CE device
> >
> >
> > Maybe HTA, I'll have to check.
> > JK
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
> > Behalf Of Braebaum, Neil
> > Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2003 5:27 AM
> > To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [THIN] Re: Clear History bar/cache on a Windows CE device
> >
> >
> > Jim - do you have either local scripting support for IE (ie
> the local
> > capability of running vbscripts), or the ability to run HTAs
> > (mshta.exe
> > - not as daft as it sounds, 'cos some system stuff (add /
> > remove) is often HTA)?
> >
> > Neil
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Braebaum, Neil
> > > Sent: 17 December 2003 17:17
> > > To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Subject: [THIN] Re: Clear History bar/cache on a Windows CE device
> > >
> > >
> > > The problem being - and this is why I replied like I did
> (ie hinting
> > > that some of this may be of use) is that server side stuff and
> > > general browser based stuff isn't going to be good enough.
> > >
> > > Code running normally within the browser, just won't have the
> > > ability to do what you want - ie either modify the
> registry, or talk
> > > to / manipulate the local filesystem. An ActiveX control or Java,
> > > possibly - but then, that would still require other
> permissions to
> > > be able to install.
> > >
> > > The reason I hinted at the layout of the history files / hierarchy
> > > being that I wrote a script that wrapped IE, rather than
> the other
> > > way around
> > > - so that it did have permissions to do that sort of thing.
> > > Only proviso being a scripting host to run with - and as I
> > > don't do any work
> > > (currently) with CE, I'm not sure whether the browser install
> > > includes this.
> > >
> > > I didn't need to use ADSI - merely scripting host calls.
> > >
> > > So unless you are going to use an application (ActiveX, or Java -
> > > which will in themselves need a local installation), you
> are going
> > > to have to write some code that can process locally. A
> HTA might be
> > > another option, but again, will require some local
> scripting support
> > > / host.
> > >
> > > I guess what I was trying to say is that I probably don't have a
> > > definite answer for your problem, but maybe have used some
> > > techniques that may be able to run within the constraints you've
> > > got.
> > >
> > > Neil
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