Re:“Cookies are small text files” – what? (2009)
by mr_mitm on Saturday August 06, 2022 @12:36PM
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> without realizing that cookies used to be exactly that
I believe the author does realize that:
> at least, I'm guessing IE must implement cookies using separate small files, or must have done so at one point
Netscape used to store cookies similar to curl in a single file, one cookie per line. IE was the only browser (AFAIK) that stored cookies in individual text files, and somehow that became canon. So I don't think it's correct in general to say "cookies used to be text files".
I believe the author does realize that:
> at least, I'm guessing IE must implement cookies using separate small files, or must have done so at one point
Netscape used to store cookies similar to curl in a single file, one cookie per line. IE was the only browser (AFAIK) that stored cookies in individual text files, and somehow that became canon. So I don't think it's correct in general to say "cookies used to be text files".