Jan 2002, J鰎gen Viksell - jorgen.viksell@telia.com,          Jorge Arellano Cid --Last update: May 2002================== Cookies in Dillo================== The cookie support in Dillo aims to support cookies of the oldoriginal Netscape style, as well as the kind specified in RFC 2109. Between sessions, the cookies get saved to ~/.dillo/cookies.At the moment the only enforcements on the amount of cookies tosave to disk is max 20 per domain. There's also a file for controlling cookies: ~/.dillo/cookiesrc. Dilloinitially sets it to ignore (reject) all cookies, so if you want to usecookies, change it to meet your needs. If you don't want cookies at all, you have two options:1.- Delete ~/.dillo/cookiesrc (or leave it just as dillo creates it).2. Configure Dillo with ./configure --disable-cookies. Then all the   cookie stuff will be skipped at compilation.===================== Controlling cookies===================== There is a small and simple way to restrict urls from setting cookiesin Dillo. In the file ~/.dillo/cookiesrc You may specify rulesfor different domains. The syntax looks something like this:DEFAULT       DENYslashdot.org  ACCEPT.host.com     ACCEPT_SESSION The first line says that we should deny all cookies from all domainsby default. The second one tells Dillo to save all cookies from slashdot.orgacross sessions, until it expires. And finally, the third says that all subdomains of host.com should beallowed to set cookies. But these cookies will only be saved inmemory until you exit.=================== Cookies & Privacy=================== Cookies can be a severe threat to personal privacy, as the pages youvisit can be tracked, logged, and associated to a peronal data-record,allowing the possibility of building a more than detailed profile of yourbrowsing habits. This data is sold to companies that profit from direct use of suchinformation (SPAM, Spying, etc). If this data is cross-referenced with other databases, they can end upwith more information than you have about yourself. Some people may tell you this is "paranoid", but please, take my wordsas of someone that has written a web browser, a cookies implementation,and that has deep understanding of HTTP (RFC-2068) and cookies (RFC-2965). Non technical persons may like to read:   http://www.junkbusters.com/cookies.html   http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/16455.html (about user-spying) Dillo project is specially concerned about privacy and security issues,and our advice is to avoid cookies whenever possible, and at most setACCEPT_SESSION to specific, trusted sites.  -- you have been warned.============== Restrictions============== If you use a single dillo with multiple windows, then there's noproblem, but if you launch different dillos the latter ones willhave cookies disabled.Thats all folks!