Adam Theo wrote:
>
> hello, all. i am developing an application that hopefully will be able
> to place cookies in mozilla (and other browsers). it will be a client
> side (local) application, and have 2 questions:
>
> 1: is it possible to place cookies in mozilla from outside the
> program?
When Mozilla is not running, you could probably add to cookies.txt. But it
would get overwritten on shutdown if Moz was running.
> i don't see why not, but want to make sure before i develop
> this idea much further. what about other browsers (netscape, ie,
> konqueror, opera, etc.)? what about other platforms (unix, linux, mac,
> win98, winnt, etc.)? any info here would be great! much appreciated!
You'd probably need to do something different for each browser on each
platform.
> 2: is it possible to set cookies that all websites can read? a
> universal cookie?
No. This would be undesireable from a privacy point of view. Imagine if
any site could read your Doubleclick cookie.
Gerv
