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Re: Picky, Picky Web Posting
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Mon, 25 Jan 1999 02:22:36 GMT
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Also sprach Mike Stanley:
: If so, couldn't somebody whip up a simple little "cookie jar" program
: to help people transport cookies from their work machines to their
: home machines?  I know I find myself in John's position all the time,
: with one machine remembering my stuff and the other not.

The 'cookie jar' is a text file somewhere on your system.  Depending on
which browser you use and how you have it set up, the location and name
will vary.

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(...) So I could just (for netscape) copy cookies.txt around from machine to machine? Hmmm... I could probably use this to let my wife and I "log on" to the same browser and retain our separate identities. I would assume that you would need to exit (...) (26 years ago, 25-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
  Re: Picky, Picky Web Posting
 
(...) Right, but surely some competent program could make a little utility to reach out and grab your cookies.txt file and throw it onto a disk. I'm assuming it would take more than a simple copy process - maybe changing machine names or something. (...) (26 years ago, 25-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)

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(...) I don't pay much attention to cookies, but it was my understanding that they are stored locally, on the user's machine. If so, couldn't somebody whip up a simple little "cookie jar" program to help people transport cookies from their work (...) (26 years ago, 25-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)

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