is there any way to disable http caching? i've already disabled caching in rekonq and konqueror, but for some reason, ~/.kde4/cache-arch/http keeps filling up with tiny files.

thanks.

Open Konqueror open Settings, Go to Cache in the "Surfing on the internet"-note and disable it.

Have fun!

here's what i did: load konqueror > settings > configure konqueror > web browsing > cache > uncheck 'use cache'. i did something similar in rekonq.

but that didn't work.

I actually have checked again and suprisingly I dont have such file in my .kde4 directory.
But if you feel confident to work with the commandline. I will show you a little trick to find out which applications have files opened and which those are.

Just open a Konsole session and type

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lsof | grep ~/.kde4/cache-arch/http


Well this is what it does:
lsof is a small application that will list all (and I mean ALL) files that are currently held open by applications and processes on your system. Believe me those can be loads when you let a machine run for >2days(mine runs since 4 days at the moment) which results in a session with (here) ca 11000 files/pipes/connections(TCP/IP) open.

The | in this snippet just takes ALL the output that goes out of lsof and gives it to the next command as if it was something you typed in after starting the second command.

Now grep and friends are some of my mooooost beloved friends since they help filtering out all the stuff I dont want to see out of what it gets as input(such as lsof's output) and only shows you what you asked it for. Like in this example grep will only search for lines where "~/.kde4/cache-arch/http" is in the lines content.

So if this will print a line like this:

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konqueror  29317     andreas  mem       REG                8,1     26048     196679 /usr/lib/gconv/gconv-modules.cache


Please tell what there is written just paste it here.