On 1/16/12 1:47 PM, Ray_Net wrote: > Paul B. Gallagher wrote: >> DoctorBill wrote: >> >>> When logging into some web sites I visit, I see that when I go back, >>> I am still logged in. Some not.... >>> >>> Some sites make me log in every 5 minutes or so of not having them >>> onscreen all the time. >>> >>> So what is happening - cookies being placed ? >> >> Certainly. >> >>> If so - are they ALWAYS in the cookie file or are other methods >>> employed ? >>> >>> If so, I would like to figure out how to make these log-in's >>> permanent. >> >> Cookies specify an expiration date and time, some longer than others. >> Anything longer than a year is "permanent" for most practical >> purposes. But you can't force a site to set a permanent cookie, and >> you can't keep them from clearing an aged one. The most you can do, if >> you really want the busybodies tracking your every move, is to accept >> all cookies and never clear them. >> > Is it posssible to modify the cookie in such a way that the expiration > date will be 1/1/2100 ? >
Locate the cookie in the cookies.sqlite database. Locate within the cookie the expiration date; RFC 6265 at <http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6265.txt> should be useful for that. Edit it with a hex editor. See also bug #355048 at <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=355048>. You might also find the following bug reports interesting: #87296 at <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87296> #692315 at <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=692315> -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/>. Anyone who thinks government owns a monopoly on inefficient, obstructive bureaucracy has obviously never worked for a large corporation. © 1997 by David E. Ross _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
