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Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 14:54:51 -0500
From: Russ Cox <russcox@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] hget+cookies?
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> The webcookies(4) man page says:
>
>           Hget(1) uses /mnt/webcookies/http, when it exists, to manage
>           cookie state.
>
> Looking at the source, it appears that hget will pass already existing
> cookies to the web server, but won't store any new cookies which the
> server provides.  Is that what you need?

Actually, it will store the new cookies too.
In httpheaders, it writes a copy of the received
HTTP headers to webcookies, which will cause
webcookies to incorporate any new cookies
sent from the server (and ignore the other
header lines).

Russ