Why is WebKit storing Cache.db files in /private/var/folders?
Sorry to be pedantic: WebKit doesn't do disk caching at all. It's
done by CFNetwork.
By default, CFNetwork stores caches in ~/Library/Caches, not in /var/
folders. And I'm sure if you look there you'll see them there.
The files in /var/folders seem to be caused by something different;
on my computer I see what seem to be hard links to the CFNetwork
caches in there, and many other files. Perhaps these have something
to do with Time Machine?
The location of the CFNetwork disk cache was changed to inside /var/
folders with the Mac OS X 10.5.2 update. My understanding is that the
rationale for the change is that because ~/Library/Caches lives inside
the users home directory, it is likely to live on a network file
system if the user has their home directory on a network volume. A
location under /var/folders is much more likely to reside on the local
disk which is a more suitable location for the relatively large and
frequently accessed cache used by CFNetwork inside Safari. That is to
say it's about performance, not security through obscurity.
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