From: Jeff Weinstein <jsw@netscape.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 22:53:12 +0800
To: Deranged Mutant <WlkngOwl@UNiX.asb.com>
Subject: Re: Netscrape's Cookies
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Defanged Fruit-ant wrote:  (Hey, he called us Netscrape :-) )
> 
> Ready the article about the COOKIE.TXT file that Netscape creates.
> Apparently my copy has yet to modify it since it was installed... so
> much for 'hacking' it (I decided to try and leave it write-protected
> for now).
> 
> I'm curious if anyone knows which sites use/modify it.

  Sites that use the Netscape Merchant system for online malls use cookies
for keeping track of your "shopping basket".  I don't think they use
persistent cookies, so they will never get written to the file on disk.
Such sites include the netscape online store (merchant.netscape.com)
and the MCI mall at www.internetmci.com.

> Also wondering why Netscape seems to touch/modify the certification
> key files every time it runs.

  It is an artifact of the database library that we are using.  The
certificates and keys are not actually being written each time.

	--Jeff

-- 
Jeff Weinstein - Electronic Munitions Specialist
Netscape Communication Corporation
jsw@netscape.com - http://home.netscape.com/people/jsw
Any opinions expressed above are mine.