IE Cache Utility is a small and simple console-based application written in C++ to list resources cached and cookies persisted by Internet Explorer. It uses the functions FindFirstUrlCacheEntry and FindNextUrlCacheEntry from the Windows Internet (WinINet) API to enumerate the cache and cookies and should work on just about any flavor of Windows.
See also license below.
IE Cache Utility only supports three commands:
help—Displays the usagelist—Lists all the entries in the Internet Explorer cachecookies—Lists cookies persisted by Internet Explorer
Typing iecache help on the command-line will show the usage
as follows:
Usage: iecache help | list | cookies
Just typing iecache list will list the URLs of all the resources
found in Internet Explorer's cache cache for the currently logged on user.
You can use it with grep or the built-in
FINDSTR
command to pipe and filter the output. For example, the following
iecache list | findstr /i google
will list all the URLs of all cached resources in which the word google
(case-insensitive) appears, as shown by the sample output below:
http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?chs=225x125&cht=gom&chd=t:50 http://elmah.googlecode.com/svn/wiki/homeshot.png res://C:\Program Files\Google\Google Talk\googletalk.exe/GIF/7160 res://C:\Program Files\Google\Google Talk\googletalk.exe/#2/#7167 https://adwords.google.com/select/images/adwords_home/new_logo.gif http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads-fds90.js http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin-fds90.js res://C:\Program Files\Google\Google Talk\googletalk.exe/#2/#7166 http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js
If you use the /verbose swtich, then you can also get the
details of each entry, include the HTTP response headers
when the resource was retrieved and cached:
URL : http://www.microsoft.com/library/…/screenshot_windowsvista.jpg Local file : C:\Users\…\Temporary Internet Files\…\screenshot_windowsvista[1].jpg Use count : 0 Hit rate : 1 Byte size : 5992 Accessed : Wednesday, July 30, 2008 4:24:49 PM Modified : Saturday, July 12, 2008 2:53:52 AM Synchronized: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 4:24:50 PM Expiration : Wednesday, July 30, 2008 4:39:50 PM HTTP/1.1 200 OK Content-Length: 5992 Content-Type: image/jpeg ETag: "edaa9dc0b9e3c81:0" P3P: CP="ALL IND DSP COR ADM CONo CUR CUSo … PHY PRE PUR UNI" X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
In addition to listing entires in the cache, you can also dump cookies
using iecache cookies. An example of how the output may
look like is shown below:
Cookie:user@messenger.msn.com/ Cookie:user@login.live.com/ Cookie:user@msdn2.microsoft.com/ Cookie:user@realmedia.com/ Cookie:user@www.codeplex.com/ … Cookie:user@docs.jquery.com/
Once more, you can pipe the output through FINDSTR to
filter. For example, the following
iecache cookies | findstr /i google
will list all cookies where the word google
(case-insensitive) appears in the name of the cookie (not the value),
as shown by the sample output below:
Cookie:user@google.com/ Cookie:user@groups.google.com/ Cookie:user@code.google.com/
You cannot get the values of the cookies at this time and there is no verbose output mode supported either when listing cookies.
IE Cache Utility is distributed under the OSI-approved and liberal New BSD License:
Copyright (c) 2005, Atif Aziz. All rights reserved.
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.