"Read" cookies

[JoaoAfonso]

Hello everyone.

How can I read a cookie file properly? I am trying to do a simple app to retrieve cookie information having a cookie file, but using a text editor, it shows the info coded...

Thanks in advance!

[Ionic Wind Support Team]

They are different formats for each browser.  A quick search on Yahoo or Google might help.

Here is Opera's cookie file format:

http://www.opera.com/docs/fileformats/

Couldn't find anything quickly about the others.

[pistol350]

I remember a "cookie manager application" written by sapero a few years ago.
The source of this application is somewhere in my archives.
If i ever manage to find it, i'll post it here.

[JoaoAfonso]

I would thank you for that

Thanks for the answers too

[JoaoAfonso]

Ok, found the cookie manager you spoke in old ibasic archive.
Thanks!

[sapero]

Joao, for IE cookies you can use InternetGetCookie function if you know the URL. You can also enumerate all stored cookies starting from FindFirstUrlCacheEntry.

Code Select Expand

$include "windowssdk.inc"
$include "wininet.inc" ' InternetGetCookie
$include "shlwapi.inc" ' UrlUnescape

string szCookie
cch = 256
result = InternetGetCookie("http://www.ionicwind.com/forums/", 0, szCookie, &cch)

select (result)
case 0
' optional - replace all %xx to characters
UrlUnescape(szCookie, szCookie, &cch, URL_UNESCAPE_INPLACE)
MessageBox 0, szCookie, ""

case ERROR_NO_MORE_ITEMS
MessageBox 0, "There is no cookie for the specified URL", ""

case ERROR_INSUFFICIENT_BUFFER
MessageBox 0, "The szCookie buffer is too small", "" ' cch = required size
endselect

[pistol350]

Ok, found the cookie manager you spoke in old ibasic archive.
Thanks!

Yes, it's that one.
Anyway, just a note for those who may not know.
It's Ibstd code so it won't compile with Ebasic.
Try with Cbasic instead.

I gathered more or less all the files required to get the program compiled properly.
I may forgot one file or more as i did not try to compile the program.
I also included a compiled version of the program.
A version more recent than what you may have if you compile the current code.
Unfortunately, I do not have the source of that version.
See the zip attached to my post.