On Fri 20 Dec 2002, Felix Karpfen wrote:
> My browser - Linux Opera - offers a number of alternative strategies for
> handling unwanted cookies. The simplest (in my opinion) is to "accept
> all cookies while online and throw them all away when closing the
> browser".
>
> Great as far as it goes.
>
> But what happens to the cookies that are sitting not in the Opera cache,
> but in the WWWOFFLE cache? Are these open for inspection to all comers
> when I am online next time?
(a) cookies aren't open to "all comers", only to the site that set them
(b) only if you visit the cached pages in the meantime, that's the only
connection between wwwoffle's cache and your browser. And it's the
browser that potentially sends cookies along with requests, not the
proxy of its own accord.
Paul Slootman
