[plug] Cookies

[Matt Kemner]

On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Christian wrote:

> ln -sf /dev/null ~/.netscape/cookies
[...]
>  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. 

Netscape uses that file only for keeping track of cookies between browser
sessions, so by linking it to /dev/null you will only prevent persistent
cookies (which is probably a good thing)

I found this out yesterday when I deleted my cookies file (while Netscape
was running) to see if Netscape would create a new file when I went to a
cookies-based website (to answer one of Bret's questions) but found to my
surprise the file it created contained all the cookies that were in there
before I deleted it, so it must keep an internal table of them too.

 - Matt