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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? Individual Risk Management (Personal IT Security) and Browser Cache Management Post 303033321 by Neo on Wednesday 3rd of April 2019 07:46:19 AM

04-03-2019

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Originally Posted by bakunin

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Cookies are little files a web server places at the client side which can be queried by the server later. In most cases these are used for harmless functions - after all, HTTP does not create a "session" but works rather like a mail exchange. HTTP consists of independent messages going back and forth between sender and receiver and if one wants to provide lasting context (this is what sets apart "sessions" from "messages") either the web server has to remember it - which would lead to exhaustion of resources on the server side in a very short time - or the server has to have a way to offload that to the client. This was the original rationale for creating cookies and in general storing web content on the client side.

First. let me help you clarify.

Cookies are generally not "queried" by a server. Cookies are sent to the server with each page (that belong to the same cookie domain) as part of the standard HTTP request.

If you open any web dev tool, like Google Chrome Web Dev Tools (but it is the same with each major browser), you will see the cookies are sent with each page, not requested by the server.

Sorry, I just wanted to be technically correct.

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kcookiejar4

KCOOKIEJAR4(8)							 KDE User's Manual						    KCOOKIEJAR4(8)

NAME

       kcookiejar4 - KDE HTTP cookie daemon

SYNOPSIS

       kcookiejar4 [--help] [Generic-options] [Qt-options] [KDE-options] [--shutdown] [--remove domain] [--remove-all] [--reload-config]

DESCRIPTION

       kcookiejar4 handles the HTTP cookies providing a D-BUS service to store/retrieve/clean cookies.

GENERIC OPTIONS

       --author
	   Show author information.

       --help
	   Show help about options.

       --help-all
	   Show all options.

       --help-kde
	   Show KDE specific options.

       --help-qt
	   Show Qt specific options.

       --license
	   Show license information.

       -v--version
	   Show version information

APPLICATION OPTIONS

       --shutdown
	   Shut down cookie jar and the D-BUS service.

       --remove domain
	   Removes cookies for domain from the cookie jar.

       --remove-all
	   Removes all the cookies from the cookie jar.

       --reaload-config
	   Reloads the configuration file.

USAGE

       KDE web browser konqueror uses kcookiejar4 for storing and managing cookies using the D-Bus service kcookiejar4 provides.

       When kcookiejar4 is started without parameters, it provides a D-BUS service to handle HTTP cookies.

       When kcookiejar4 is started with some parameters, it does additional tasks to the cookies jar it provides, like removing the cookies from
       one domain.

SEE ALSO

       kdeoptions(7), qtoptions(7)

BUGS

       There are probably tons of bugs. Use bugs.kde.org[1] to report them.

AUTHORS

       Waldo Bastian <bastian@kde.org>
	   Author.

       Dawit Alemayehu <adawit@kde.org>
	   Author.

NOTES

	1. bugs.kde.org
	   http://bugs.kde.org

0.01.01 							    2008-10-14							    KCOOKIEJAR4(8)