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.
I agree. Editing is problematic.
Yes, editing is difficult, often a trial-and-error effort if you don't know what the site is looking for. You generally end up with a cookie that is ignored by the server, which then acts as though no cookie were involved. I have yet to see a "damaging" cookie, outside of the stupidity of trying to pass a plain-text password across the 'net for storage on the client. Anybody seen any interesting problematic cookies? - r.w.