Vista & Cookies

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Does anybody know where are cookies stored in Windows Vista? I'm looking at C:\Users\MyUser\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Cookies but the cookies I see there don't match the one I see through Firefox.

I'm creating a cookie in ASP.NET, localhost, Firefox shows me the cookie but I cannot locate it in the file system.

Any ideas? Tks

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I think FireFox stores cookies in its own storage, not under the Cookies folder in the profile. This is where IE stores its cookies.

On my system (XP Pro with FireFox 3.0.10), cookies seem to be stored unter C:\Documents And Settings\USERNAME\Application Data\Mozilla\FireFox\Profiles... in a SQLite database.

Thorsten Dittmar 2009-06-10 11:05:32

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On vista: C:\Users\yourUsername\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\someRandomNumbers.default\cookies.sqlite

cbp 2009-06-10 11:06:31

Tools -> Options -> Privacy -> Show Cookies.

SpliFF 2009-06-10 11:08:28

I know that one, it's stated in my question. But thanks anyway.

Dante 2009-06-10 11:12:35

then it's an odd question. what do you expect to get out of the sqlite file that you can't get through the options interface?

SpliFF 2009-06-10 12:06:12

The question was where is physically Firefox getting the cookie data from? I didn't know it was from SQLite.

Dante 2009-06-10 13:40:34

Non persistent cookies are kept in memory.

PQW 2009-06-10 11:11:13

If there is not a shared space for cookies, they are browser depedent. Strange, if a web site is sending a cookie to the client, why shouldn't all browsers share the same cookie?

If someone implements a single sing on mechanism for site authentication.... it will be limited to a single browser, you still need to authenticate for each browser you may use.

Dante 2009-06-10 11:15:58

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