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General Settings

Options


Donīt change 'User Agent' field

If your browser requests an object like text or image from a Website it also sends a browser identification string (user agent). This string is used by some sites to display Web pages best suited to your browser's characteristics. WebWasher does not change browser's ID but adds the WebWasher ID to the user agent field. This allows Webmasters to calculate the percentage of WebWasher accesses on their site. If you do not want Websites identifying your WebWasher usage then activate this option.

Not connected (offline)

Disconnects WebWasher and the browser from the proxy server. If you are connected to an intranet, then you can only access intranet Websites.

Prevent cache by-passing

Transferred data from the Internet is normally buffered in the Cache of the browser. If the Web page is requested again the data is fetched from the cache, thus avoiding a time and money costly retransmission. Consequently the cache of the browser considerably accelerates the surfing speed.
Some Web pages contain special code bypassing the cache of the browser while reloading of the Web page. This means all data have to be fetched again from the Internet. Web page Therefore surfing speed considerably decreases and valuable bandwidth of the network is lost.
Code which by-passes the cache makes sense on pages frequently changing their contents (chats, news etc.); the newest content is always displayed. Unfortunately misuse of this code is on the rise with the intention to leverage artificially the number of pageviews. A page view is only counted if the data are requested from the Webserver and not from the browser's cache.
The WebWasher function Prevent cache by-passing, found in the menu Options, offers the user a general possibility to avoid manipulation of the browser's cache. It is also recommended to deactivate the comparison function of the browser's Cache with.


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