Odd one: IE6 showing the "view source" command enabled when I was expecting it to be disabled.

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Published on 2010-08-13T14:17:27Z Indexed on 2011/01/12 19:55 UTC
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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?

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