Do I get a cookie?

Me_again · Post by **Me_again** » Wed Sep 23, 2009 10:21 pm

A semi-random thought...

If I HTTPRequest a page from a website that sets cookies, do I also get their cookie?

Post by **Marcus Tettmar** » Thu Sep 24, 2009 7:53 am

No. Only browsers manage cookies. HTTPRequest does only that - request a file via HTTP.

Me_again · Post by **Me_again** » Thu Sep 24, 2009 2:51 pm

That's good, thanks!

Me_again · Post by **Me_again** » Thu Sep 24, 2009 5:22 pm

In case anyone wondered, I'm trying to help figure out why a cookie is persistently returning on a machine that's never used for web browsing

It's logical to suspect skulduggery but scans don't show malware or other problems.

Bob Hansen · Post by **Bob Hansen** » Fri Sep 25, 2009 12:21 am

Try using SysInternals to find what is writing the cookie.

There are many utilities in the complete suite, but I suspect that FileMon is the one you will want to use.

This suite was originally developed as a third party of tools before it was acquired by Microsoft a few years ago. Original staff is still involved I believe.

I downloaded it many years ago from here, get the entire suite.
Entire Suite downloaded from:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysint ... index.mspx

Me_again · Post by **Me_again** » Fri Sep 25, 2009 6:19 pm

Thanks Bob, good idea

I did a panic download of all the sysinternals stuff as soon as I heard they were being assimilated