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How Internet Explorer stores web history

Tue, 15 Jun 2010 04:52PM

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Internet Explorer stores files downloaded from the internet in a cache called Temporary Internet Files (e.g. html pages, images, CSS files). Each cached file is assigned an alphanumeric cache name. Some index.dat files serve to map the cached name with the filename and URL it came from. Other index.dat files store the user’s cookies or web browser history (by default 20 days’ worth). index.dat files are in binary format, and need to be viewed using a hex editor.

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