On Thu, 9 May 2002, Sean M. Burke wrote: [...] > Before we spend more time possibly reinventing the wheel, does anyone here > know of any existing explanations of the file format? > I've poked around Google, but found nothing. But I can't believe we're the > first people to want to understand a more-or-less straightforward file format! [...]
The best (v. poor) info I could find is here: http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&threadm=3820A55F.4A5FB8A9%40corp.netzero.net&rnum=2&prev=/groups%3Fq%3DIE%2Bcookie%2Bformat%2Bgroup:*microsoft*%26hl%3Den%26selm%3D3820A55F.4A5FB8A9%2540corp.netzero.net%26rnum%3D2 and the official MS docs, which just explain the API for getting at / setting the cookies, not the format itself: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/wcewinet/htm/ceconHTTPCookies.asp (under 'creating and retrieving cookies'; note that Microsoft's pages don't always work properly with Netscape, so use IE to read these pages). Since they apparently don't document the format, I guess the only way to find out is to call InternetSetCookie lots of times, and look at the generated files, then test your hypotheses using InternetGetCookie on your own cookie files. John
