Flash cookies are kind of evil, since browsers don't allow you to manage them at all, and hardly anyone knows they even exist.
Scott -- R. Scott Granneman [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ www.granneman.com Full list of publications @ http://www.granneman.com/publications My new book: Linux Phrasebook @ http://www.granneman.com/books "Fools rush in where fools have been before." ---Anonymous On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 2:20 PM, Mike Bigalke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well. I did a little digging through the folders.... and I found.... > ta da.... that ~/.macromedia/flashplayer/#sharedobjects/ contains > flash cookies, as does ~/.macromedia/flashplayer/macromedia.com/. It > seems to leave a history of all the flash sites you've visited. > > wget, on the other hand seems to download everything into the current > folder. Thus, your cookie should be in the folder from which you used > wget. Thus, using wget in your home folder is probably not a good > idea in the long run. I'd create an html folder or download folder > use wget from there. Thus ~/download/wget -U etc.... > > > > On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 1:52 PM, Mike Bigalke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> hmm... I'll have to check on where wget stores cookies.... >> >> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 7:18 PM, Theresa Kehoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 17:14 -0600, Robert Citek wrote: >>> >>> >>>> [...]The point of this exercise was to see how >>>> long a server will accept a session cookie. >>> >>> AFAIK, that is: >>> >>> 1. until the server is rebooted >>> 2. until you end the session (close your browser, etc.) >>> 3. until their software ends the session >>> >>> Don't know about the rest, but I am kind of curious just how long it >>> will persist for! (or, how long their servers run between reboots) >>> >>> Theresa >>> >>> >>> >> >>> >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
