[2349] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: COMMENT: Cookie dough (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Hostetler)
Mon Jul 8 15:57:10 1996
To: "Hamilton, Ed @ OTT" <EHAMILT@esc.lmco.com>
cc: "'Scott Wyant (Cookie Stuff)" <scott_wyant@loop.com>,
www-security <www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 04 Jul 1996 16:33:00 EDT."
<31DC2AC9@monsmtp.mtl.unisysgsg.com>
Date: Mon, 08 Jul 1996 12:49:57 -0500
From: Jeff Hostetler <jeff@spyglass.com>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
> Very interesting. Not only that, but I also found a new file called
> COOKIE.JAR in my C:\WINDOWS Directory. It only has information from
> Netscape at the moment, but for how long?
>
> Does anyone have some interesting information about this file as well?
>
> --- Ed.
Guilty.
Browsers based upon Spyglass Mosaic keep non-expired, persistent cookies
in that file. The file contains one cookie per line as received.
jeff
