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RE: curl cookie jar filtering

From: Roth, Kevin P. <KPRoth_at_MarathonOil.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 18:01:06 -0400

I take back my initial comment regarding filtering cookie jars from 3rd
party cookies (those not sent back to the originating server).

If I would have thought a little more carefully, I would have realized
(duh!) that a 3rd party cookie would actually not do anything unless we
told curl to VISIT that 3rd party web site. Unlike normal web browsers
(which can have little images - called web bugs - implanted to allow
advertisers to collect their stats), curl doesn't automatically request
every embedded image, etc in a web page.

--Kevin
Received on 2001-08-29