Odd one: IE6 showing the "view source" command enabled when I was expecting it to be disabled.
- by caerphilly
Hi,
OK, I admit this problem is odd. I'm just trying to understand why IE is behaving the way it is. I realise that logic may not apply here :)
I have Internet Explorer 6 (Sp1) running on Windows 2000.
The IE option "Do not store encrypted pages to disk" is checked (enabled).
The temporary internet files folder is empty.
TEMP and TMP environment variables are set to valid folders.
I'm connected to a web server over SSL.
The web server is serving a page over SSL with the HTTP cache-control header set to "no-cache, no-store".
I was expecting the "view source" command to be greyed out in this circumstance (as it is on another machine).
But it works. When I "view source", I get an entry in the Temporary Internet Files folder with an "internet address" property of "view-source:https://myserver/...." and the content of the page. I wasn't expecting that.
I can't understand why one machine is different to another in this regard. Obviously there is some environment/setup difference, but I can't track it down.
Anyone have any bright ideas?