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What does it mean?
Authored by: the_webmaestro on Nov 26, '02 10:44:03AM
Howdy folks!

I already had the file cookperm.txt in my Chimera ~/Lib... folder. It has even more items in it (100+) than the Mozilla one (10). Perhaps that's because Chimera is my default browser :-)

Anyway, instead of a bunch of items with 1F at the end:
  • ar.atwola.com 1F
  • spinbox.versiontracker.com 1F
  • @@@@ 0F 1F 2F
I have the following snippet:
  • 2o7.net 0F
  • 80211-planet.com 0T
  • ad-flow.com 0F
  • www.procreate.com 0T
  • www.realgoods.com 0T
  • x10.com 0F
  • yahoo.com 0T
  • z1.adserver.com 0F
  • zdnet.com 0T
  • @@@@ 0T 1F
Now, I don't know what this means, but I suspect foe following:
  • 0F = Don't accept cookies
  • 0T = accept cookiees
  • 1F = Don't accept images
I'd really like to know. Assuming that the top lines might provide some help:
  • # HTTP Permission File
  • # http://www.netscape.com/newsref/std/cookie_spec.html
  • # This is a generated file! Do not edit.
I followed the link, and found it talks about cookies & not the cookperm.txt file. Anyone have some hints to share? Thanks!

Web Maestro Clay

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cookperm.txt explanation
Authored by: kwalker on Nov 26, '02 11:32:26AM

This is a great hint. The inability to selectively block images was the main reason I didn't use Chimera much.

An explanation of the cookperm.txt format can be found here:

http://moz.zope.org/Members/fabian/drafts/cookperm.txt

But beware: the above article gets it wrong on the numbers. 0 is for cookies, 1 is for images, and 2 is for popups.



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