(OT) Where Are Cookies Stored?

[Victor Subervi]

On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 6:29 PM, Steven D'Aprano <
steve at remove-this-cybersource.com.au> wrote:

> On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:03:07 -0300, 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.
> [...]
> > 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.
>
> But you do care if you're writing a cookie manager, or if you need to
> grab an existing cookie from disk and do something with it (as wget
> allows you to do, for example).
>
> Victor, have you got Firefox set to delete all cookies when you log out?
>

No. I can see the *$^@& cookies in Tools/Options but I can't find 'em!
V
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