How to clear the cache of a WebBrowser Widget

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Is it possible to clear the cache of a WebBrowser? If so: How?

Thanks in advance!

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I want to know this too!

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Me tooā€¦very frustrating for checking changes made to a web page to see if it looks ok !!!

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Really hope someone answers this!

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close unreal, go into the project folder projectname\saved\webcache, and delete everything in there.

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Thanks you so much!

Throwing a few ideas, this could be automated using C++, and support for a ā€œno-cacheā€ mode that does this could be made1

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Although I think deleting the directory programmatically is a good idea. I have found that calling either IPlatformFile::DeleteDirectory or IPlatformFile::DeleteDirectoryRecursively fails on the webcache folder because the game/application uses files in the directory while itā€™s running.

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Hiļ¼ŒHow to run in no-cache modeļ¼Ÿthanks.

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Hi,
After a lot of struggle, I was successfully able to clear the browser cookies from the game. A little bit of c++ coding will be needed in this case.

Add WebBrowser module in your build.cs file
Create a c++ class blueprint library
import the following classes

#include "IWebBrowserCookieManager.h"
#include "IWebBrowserSingleton.h"
#include "WebBrowserModule.h"

Make a blueprint callable function and paste the following code:

IWebBrowserSingleton* WebBrowserSingleton = IWebBrowserModule::Get().GetSingleton();
    if (WebBrowserSingleton)
    {
        TSharedPtr<IWebBrowserCookieManager> CookieManager = WebBrowserSingleton->GetCookieManager();
        if (CookieManager.IsValid())
        {
            CookieManager->DeleteCookies();
        }
    }

Call this function from your blueprint anywhere.

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