[thelist] How does IE store cookies?

[Peter Brunone (EasyListBox.com)]

   Well, I know that IE (thought they were all like this) doesn't persist the cookie past when you close the browser if you don't explicitly set an expiration data; might that have something to do with where it's kept?

Peter

				From: "Chris Dorer" cdorer at gmail.com

List,

Who's familiar with how IE stores cookies? I know it's in the $USER/Cookies
directory.

For reasons, FireFox correctly stores session/regular cookies in a
directory. IE, on the other hand, you try to make a SIMPLE cookie as you
would for FireFox, IE must stores the cookie internally, i cannot find the
cookie file in the assigned directory.

Does anybody have any thoughts? Am I missing any pertinent information that
might help you to help figure this out? I've searched all over Google, i
might have done bad queries, but I'm running out of ideas of searching for
this issue. Maybe one of you knows?

I'm using modperl 1.x Apache cookie generator.

Here's what the code looks like:

my %session;
my $r = Apache->request;
my $cookie = $r->header_in('Cookie');
if( defined( $cookie ) )
{
$cookie =~ s/SESSION_ID=(\w*)/$1/;
}

$session{_session_id} = '1234567890';
my $session_cookie = "SESSION_ID=$session{_session_id};";
$r->header_out("Set-Cookie" => $session_cookie);

Kind regards,
Chris