CookieScan 0.0 rev 0

Do y¹all think there might be an interest in a utility which would allow the user to deal with browser cookies? 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). This little app would also come with help text explaining what a cookie is (and is not). In future it might run in the background and alert the user when a cookie is being dropped and the user could give or deny permission (Netscape 3.0 will do this as well). As it is an ³anti-virus² type product it would be offered for free. I could just stick it up on Apple¹s (or Netscape's) website when finished. Do any such utilities currently exits? -Chris ... ... smtp: nozefngr@apple.com .. page: 1.800.680.7351 .. http: http://virtual.net/Personal/nozefngr/ .. icbm: lat37*21'.lon121*5' .. .. the kabuki project: http://remarque.berkeley.edu/kabuki/

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.

At 5:34 PM -0700 7/15/96, Christopher Hull wrote:
Do y'all think there might be an interest in a utility which would allow the user to deal with browser cookies?
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, it's *your* computer, not the website's).
And they'll simply <snicker> start encrypting the cookies if they don't do so already. Have a nice day. David
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Christopher Hull
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David Sternlight
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Jeff Weinstein