[plug] Cookies

Christian christian at amnet.net.au
Thu Nov 30 10:49:04 WST 2000


On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 02:22:19PM +0800, Steve Grasso wrote:
 
> AFAIK, no. If you want to allow only selected current-session cookies, but no
> persistent cookies ever, you could create a cookies file under ~/.netscape (eg
> touch ~/.netscape/cookies) then set ultra-restrictive file permissions (eg
> chmod 000 ~/.netscape/cookies). That way you have the option of selectively
> allowing cookies which will not persist beyond the current browsing session.

Another option is:

ln -sf /dev/null ~/.netscape/cookies

Now Netscape can write all its cookies to the file as much as it wants
but they won't be there when it tries to read them back in.  Of course,
this disables the purpose of cookies and most serious web sites which
NEED to use cookies won't work if you do either of these things.

Regards,

Christian.



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