(OT) Where Are Cookies Stored?

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Gabriel Genellina wrote:
> En Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:30:23 -0300, Victor Subervi
> <victorsubervi at gmail.com> escribió:
> 
>> I've googled, found where cookies are supposed to be, the folders and
>> files
>> don't exist. I've opened my latest and greatest FF and seen cookies in
>> there, but when I search for the name of the cookie in the C: dir,
>> it's not
>> there...anywhere. I've made sure no folders/files are hidden and I still
>> can't find them. In as administrator. What up? XP OS I need to get in
>> so I
>> can learn how to program with cookies.
> 
> How the browser stores its cookies should be irrelevant. Whenever a
> server response contains a Set-Cookie header, the browser saves the
> cookie. When the client issues a request that matches a saved cookie, it
> adds a Cookie header with the cookie. From the server POV, you don't
> care how the cookie is stored.
> 


Cookies in FF for Windows are stored in an sqlite database in here...

~\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\%XYZ%\firefox_profile\

Roger.