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Status: WontFix
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Closed: Mar 2018
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OS: Windows
Pri: 3
Type: Feature



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Request ability to whitelist sites from clear cache function

Reported by joseph.a...@gmail.com, Mar 8 2018

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/64.0.3282.186 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Options
2. Settings
3. Advanced
4. Clear browsing data
5. Advanced

What is the expected behavior?
Ability to create a whitelist of websites to be excluded from cache clears

What went wrong?
Doesn't appear that this is a function available natively or via extension

Did this work before? No 

Chrome version: 64.0.3282.186  Channel: n/a
OS Version: 10.0
Flash Version: Shockwave Flash 28.0 r0

Posted originally in forum, was directed to submit request here as no native function exists and to treat as enhancement request. Including original post body with prop value below...

"I work at a company where certain websites like to maintain their cookies (like our ACD, QM, or WFM vendor websites), other websites tend to run into cookie issues and require us to clear cache. When clearing the cache however it clears it for all sites when there are a handful we'd really like to keep them for, defaulting a number of settings that need to be re-added afterwards.
We have a contact center with 250+ seats so asking agents to go in and remove cookies from the problem sites isn't a good scalable solution.

I've been trying to find out if there's a way to whitelist certain websites so that if someone goes to clear their cache "from the beginning of time" those website are excluded and need to be purged manually.

I've been searching around for a while now but wasn't finding anything specific to large office settings and I'm sure we're not the only ones that run into it. Does anyone know of an existing function that would allow this? Or know of any extensions that provide a workaround for the issue?"

Thanks for your time!

<3,
Joseph
 
Components: UI>Settings Internals>Network>Cache
Labels: Needs-Feedback
Do you mean clear the HTTP cache or clear cookies?  Extensions have the ability to clear cookies via the chrome.cookies API.  The contentSettings API also lets you set cookies for problematic domains to be session-only, so they'll be cleared when Chrome is shut down.  Generally when there's an extension API for something, we don't add UI surface area for it.

You may also want to talk to vendors about their broken websites.
Labels: -Type-Bug -Pri-2 Pri-3 Type-Feature
Labels: Needs-Triage-M64

Comment 5 by mmenke@chromium.org, Mar 15 2018

[joseph.a.dunphy]:  Could you please respond to comment #2?  Thanks!
We can close! Was looking for both cookies and cache whitelist function. Discussed internally to build our own extension.

Vendors to have a website that works 100% of time in the contact center space is unrealistic, but looks like custom built extension will be out workaround.

Thank you for helping us identify the optimal option!
Project Member

Comment 7 by sheriffbot@chromium.org, Mar 15 2018

Cc: mmenke@chromium.org
Labels: -Needs-Feedback
Thank you for providing more feedback. Adding the requester to the cc list.

For more details visit https://www.chromium.org/issue-tracking/autotriage - Your friendly Sheriffbot

Comment 8 by mmenke@chromium.org, Mar 15 2018

Status: WontFix (was: Unconfirmed)
No problem!  Appreciate the followup.

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