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<li><a href="#overview">Overview</a></li>
<li><a href="#showing_cookies">Cookie Details Shown</a></li>
<li><a href="#removing_cookies">Removing Cookies</a></li>
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<h2><a name="overview" id="overview">Overview</a></h2>
<p><strong>Lynx</strong>'s <em>Cookie Jar Page</em> displays all
of the unexpired cookies you have accumulated in the hypothetical
<em>Cookie Jar</em>. The cookies are obtained via
<em>Set-Cookie</em> MIME headers in replies from http servers,
and are used for <a href="../Lynx_users_guide.html#Cookies">State
Management</a> across successive requests to the servers.</p>
<p>The cookies are listed by <em>domain</em> (server's Fully
Qualified Domain Name, or site-identifying portion of the FQDN),
and in order of decreasing specificity (number of slash-separated
symbolic elements in the <em>path</em> attribute of the cookie).
When <strong>Lynx</strong> sends requests to an http server whose
address tail-matches a <em>domain</em> in the <em>Cookie
Jar</em>, all its cookies with a <em>path</em> which head-matches
the path in the URL for that request are included as a
<em>Cookie</em> MIME header. The “allow” setting for
accepting cookies from each domain (always, never, or via prompt)
also is indicated in the listing.</p>
<h2><a name="showing_cookies" id="showing_cookies">Cookie Details
Shown</a></h2>
<p>The listing also shows the <em>port</em> (normally 80) of the
URL for the request which caused the cookie to be sent, and
whether the <em>secure</em> flag is set for the cookie, in which
case it will be sent only via secure connections (presently, only
SSL). The <em>Maximum Gobble Date</em>, i.e., when the cookie is
intended to expire, also is indicated. Also, a server may change
the expiration date, or cause the cookie to be deleted, in its
replies to subsequent requests from <strong>Lynx</strong>. If the
server included any explanatory comments in its
<em>Set-Cookie</em> MIME headers, those also are displayed in the
listing.</p>
<h2><a name="removing_cookies" id="removing_cookies">Removing
Cookies</a></h2>
<p>The <em>domain</em>=value pairs, and each cookie's name=value,
are links in the listing. Activating a <em>domain</em>=value link
will invoke a prompt asking whether all cookies in that
<em>domain</em> should be <em>Gobbled</em> (deleted from the
<em>Cookie Jar</em>), and/or whether the <em>domain</em> entry
should be <em>Gobbled</em> if all of its cookies have been
<em>Gobbled</em>, or whether to change the “allow”
setting for that <em>domain</em>. Activating a cookie's
name=value link will cause that particular cookie to be
<em>Gobbled</em>. You will be prompted for confirmations of
deletions, to avoid any accidental <em>Gobbling</em>.</p>
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