Cookie headers Elements
- Name field: The Name field is required and determines the name of the cookie being stored.
- Expires field: The Expires field determines the lifetime of the cookie. If a date is not specified, the cookie expires when the session ends.
- Path field: The Path field specifies the subset of the URL path for which a particular cookie is valid and prevents the cookie from being intercepted. If the directory is unspecified, software assumes the valid path is the same directory described by the cookie header.
- Domain field: The Domain field determines which machines are allowed to access the value stored in the cookie.
- Secure field: The Secure field transmits a cookie only over a secure channel.
Cookie file
Microsoft Edge
Follow the below steps to manage cookies in Microsoft Edge.- Open Microsoft Edge.
- Click on More options ( ... symbol) on the top right corner of the browser.
- Select Settings from the drop down menu.
- Click on Choose what to clear under Clear browsing data.
- Check the Cookies and saved website data (and any other data you want to clear) and click on Clear button.
Filenames begin with Cookie: and include the username and domain of the server that wrote the cookie. Safari cookies are recorded in an XML file named Cookies.plist within the [user]/Library/Cookies/ directory.
Opera cookies are recorded in a binary file named cookies4.dat within the [user]\Application Data\Opera\Opera directory.
Google Chrome cookies are recorded in a SQLite database file named Cookies within the
directory. Be aware that if you are testing with Google Chrome, your code will not work unless the files are coming from an HTTP server. Chrome intentionally disables cookies on file:/// documents. A cookie file is a text file. If curiosity drives you to open a cookie file, we recommend that you do so only with a copy saved in another directory or folder. Any alteration to the existing file can mess up whatever valuable cookies are stored there for sites you regularly visit. The data format for cookie files differs across browsers, in line with the different methodologies used for filing cookies. Inside the Mozilla file (after a few comment lines warning you not to manually alter the file) are lines of tab-delimited text. Each return-delimited line contains one cookie’s information. The cookie file is just like a text listing of a database. In each of the IE cookie files, the same data points are stored for a cookie as for Mozilla, but the items are in a return-delimited list. The structure of these files is of no importance to scripting cookies, because all browsers utilize the same syntax for reading and writing cookies through the document.cookie property.
Opera cookies are recorded in a binary file named cookies4.dat within the [user]\Application Data\Opera\Opera directory.
Google Chrome cookies are recorded in a SQLite database file named Cookies within the
[user]\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default
directory. Be aware that if you are testing with Google Chrome, your code will not work unless the files are coming from an HTTP server. Chrome intentionally disables cookies on file:/// documents. A cookie file is a text file. If curiosity drives you to open a cookie file, we recommend that you do so only with a copy saved in another directory or folder. Any alteration to the existing file can mess up whatever valuable cookies are stored there for sites you regularly visit. The data format for cookie files differs across browsers, in line with the different methodologies used for filing cookies. Inside the Mozilla file (after a few comment lines warning you not to manually alter the file) are lines of tab-delimited text. Each return-delimited line contains one cookie’s information. The cookie file is just like a text listing of a database. In each of the IE cookie files, the same data points are stored for a cookie as for Mozilla, but the items are in a return-delimited list. The structure of these files is of no importance to scripting cookies, because all browsers utilize the same syntax for reading and writing cookies through the document.cookie property.