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If you browse your Safari cookies by looking in the Safari preference pane, you'll notice that the cookies seem to in alphabetical order, sorta. It didn't dawn on me until I really looked closely at it -- the domains are sorted alphabetically based on their reverse domain name. So given the following domains:
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Safari's cookie sort order explained
Great hint! Thank you!
Safari's cookie sort order explained
Nice, that always confused me.
Safari's cookie sort order explained
Here's an example of how cookies are sorted by domain in PithHelmet's Cookie Editor:
Safari's cookie sort order explained
If someone at Apple reads these comments, please autoselect, in the list of cookie domains, the one(s) that we are *currently* browsing.
Safari's cookie sort order explained
if SOMEONE wants Apple to fix or change anything then DO NOT (only) post the info in non-Apple forums!
Safari's cookie sort order explained
the reverse order is actually how dns is supposed to work..
the top level domain like com net gov org name tv cc and so on are read first then the domain name like apple in apple.com then the next part like www in www.apple.com so when DNS reads the domain name it reads it from the right to the left.
Safari's cookie sort order explained
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