1996-07-16 - Re: CookieScan 0.0 rev 0

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From: Jeff Weinstein <jsw@netscape.com>
To: Christopher Hull <nozefngr@apple.com>
Message Hash: 0eab8acbfdc61ffcbf148fde4504b63995e5f5a66da97880266f47a6044d1c76
Message ID: <31EAE914.5336@netscape.com>
Reply To: <199607152332.QAA14438@apple.com>
UTC Datetime: 1996-07-16 11:45:00 UTC
Raw Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 19:45:00 +0800

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From: Jeff Weinstein <jsw@netscape.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 19:45:00 +0800
To: Christopher Hull <nozefngr@apple.com>
Subject: Re: CookieScan 0.0 rev 0
In-Reply-To: <199607152332.QAA14438@apple.com>
Message-ID: <31EAE914.5336@netscape.com>
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Christopher Hull wrote:
> What I imagine is a little utility that would
> display the cookies stashed on a machine and
> give the user the option to either delete or
> <snicker> edit </snicker> any given cookie.
> (Hey, it¹s *your* computer, not the website¹s).

  I doubt that you will have much luck here.  Many (most??) sites
that use cookies tend to encode or obscure them so that they are not
human readable.  Certainly anyone doing something questionable
will obscure their cookies so that they will not be user readable
or editable.

	--Jeff

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





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