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Commit 52da3a43 authored by Jesse Wilson's avatar Jesse Wilson Committed by Android (Google) Code Review
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Merge "Warn about the lack of access controls for SD card HTTP caches."

parents 48e34174 98e8b19c
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@@ -70,12 +70,15 @@ import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient;
 * the hit rate, but it may also just waste filesystem space!
 *
 * <p>For some applications it may be preferable to create the cache in the
 * external storage directory. Although it often has more free space, external
 * storage is optional and&#8212;even if available&#8212;can disappear during
 * use. Retrieve the external cache directory using {@link Context#getExternalCacheDir()}. If this method
 * returns null, your application should fall back to either not caching or
 * caching on non-external storage. If the external storage is removed during
 * use, the cache hit rate will drop to zero and ongoing cache reads will fail.
 * external storage directory. <strong>There are no access controls on the
 * external storage directory so it should not be used for caches that could
 * contain private data.</strong> Although it often has more free space,
 * external storage is optional and&#8212;even if available&#8212;can disappear
 * during use. Retrieve the external cache directory using {@link
 * Context#getExternalCacheDir()}. If this method returns null, your application
 * should fall back to either not caching or caching on non-external storage. If
 * the external storage is removed during use, the cache hit rate will drop to
 * zero and ongoing cache reads will fail.
 *
 * <p>Flushing the cache forces its data to the filesystem. This ensures that
 * all responses written to the cache will be readable the next time the
@@ -214,7 +217,7 @@ public final class HttpResponseCache extends ResponseCache implements Closeable
     */
    public void flush() {
        try {
            delegate.getCache().flush(); // TODO: fix flush() to not throw?
            delegate.getCache().flush();
        } catch (IOException ignored) {
        }
    }