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#1 OFFLINE   Ozmoz

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Posted 11 January 2009 - 06:25 AM

HI there,

Would it be possible to add a 'Cookie Viewer" option?

Reason: When I go to some sites that I am a member it pops a cookie on my PC, after I enter my username/password I get another cookie. Since I like keeping the cookies with my username/passwords so I don't need to re-enter them at each visit, I'd like to be able to view the cookies so I know which one contains my username/password and only save that one.

I also think it would be a nice option to be able to see what's in the cookies while the program is running.

Thanks!,
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Posted 17 January 2009 - 10:15 PM

Hi Ozmoz, and welcome to the forum.

That's not a bad suggestion. I could use that myself, as it's often a case of keeping all cookies from a particular site, and by a tedious process of elimination, finding the relevant one.

Whether it could be easily implemented I don't know, but thanks for the suggestion.

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Posted 17 January 2009 - 11:58 PM

Aren't cookies encrypted, and thus only decryptable by the relevant website/application?

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Posted 18 January 2009 - 01:28 AM

View PostAugeas, on Jan 17 2009, 06:58 PM, said:

Aren't cookies encrypted, and thus only decryptable by the relevant website/application?
WinPatrol can display cookies and they have readable stuff and numbers.
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#5 OFFLINE   Ozmoz

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Posted 18 January 2009 - 06:25 AM

View PostDennisD, on Jan 18 2009, 08:15 AM, said:

Hi Ozmoz, and welcome to the forum.

That's not a bad suggestion. I could use that myself, as it's often a case of keeping all cookies from a particular site, and by a tedious process of elimination, finding the relevant one.

Whether it could be easily implemented I don't know, but thanks for the suggestion.

Thank you for the consideration :-)

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Posted 18 January 2009 - 03:55 PM

View PostAugeas, on Jan 17 2009, 11:58 PM, said:

Aren't cookies encrypted, and thus only decryptable by the relevant website/application?

I've opened many cookies in notepad, and amongst the encrypted data I usually find "readable" refferences to the login details I'm looking for. This also applies to flash cookies, "settings.sol" files.

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Posted 18 January 2009 - 04:59 PM

IECookiesView v1.73 Cookies viewer-manager for Internet Explorer (zipfile 94 kB).

No installation. Portable.

In menu 'File' -> 'Installation Options' can be checked "Show a cookies button in Internet Explorer toolbar".

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