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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? Individual Risk Management (Personal IT Security) and Browser Cache Management Post 303033252 by bakunin on Tuesday 2nd of April 2019 07:04:29 AM

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Individual Risk Management (Personal IT Security) and Browser Cache Management

Moderator's Comments:

Original post from this thread on browser caching.

To add to this, it is an effective security measure to clear absolutely all cached data (cookies, web content, ....) when closing the browser - i.e. in case of a shutdown. It takes a bit of work to re-login to all the sites but websites will not be able to identify you personally across sessions.

Also notice that some websites use information about your window size to identify you. This is why it is unwise to have maximized browser windows. Use fixed-size windows (like the for instance the TOR-browser does) instead which you should resize only in case you trust the website shown in this window.

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curlopt_cookiesession

CURLOPT_COOKIESESSION(3)				     curl_easy_setopt options					  CURLOPT_COOKIESESSION(3)

NAME

       CURLOPT_COOKIESESSION - start a new cookie session

SYNOPSIS

       #include <curl/curl.h>

       CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_COOKIESESSION, long init);

DESCRIPTION

       Pass a long set to 1 to mark this as a new cookie "session". It will force libcurl to ignore all cookies it is about to load that are "ses-
       sion cookies" from the previous session. By default, libcurl always stores and loads all cookies, independent if they are  session  cookies
       or not. Session cookies are cookies without expiry date and they are meant to be alive and existing for this "session" only.

       A "session" is usually defined in browser land for as long as you have your browser up, more or less.

DEFAULT

       0

PROTOCOLS

       HTTP

EXAMPLE

       TODO

AVAILABILITY

       Along with HTTP

RETURN VALUE

       Returns CURLE_OK

SEE ALSO

       CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE(3), CURLOPT_COOKIE(3),

libcurl 7.54.0							 February 03, 2016					  CURLOPT_COOKIESESSION(3)