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NAME

       gtkcookie - edit Netscape cookie file

SYNOPSIS

       gtkcookie [ Gtk options ]

DESCRIPTION

   Options
       gtkcookie  supports  the  command flags common to all Gtk applications.
       There are no gtkcookie-specific flags.

   What happens at startup
       On startup, gtkcookie will try to find your  Netscape  cookie  file  by
       looking  for  ~/.netscape/cookies.  If  ~/.netscape/cookies  is  found,
       gtkcookie will load the file and show it in a multi-column list.

   Opening a cookie file
       Regardless of whether gtkcookie finds your cookie file, or you have  to
       open  it manually, when you open the file, all of your Netscape cookies
       are displayed in whatever order Netscape wrote them into the file.

   Sorting a cookie file
       You can sort the cookies by any column by clicking on the  heading  for
       that column.

   Human-readable dates
       The  final  column is actually not stored in your cookie file, but is a
       translation of Netscape’s native date field. Netscape stores  the  date
       as  the  number  of  seconds since 1 Jan 1970 (familiar to anyone who’s
       spent any time on Unix), but  gtkcookie  translates  those  dates  into
       human-readable expiry dates in the final column.

   Editing cookies
       To  edit  a  cookie,  double-click  on  the  cookie,  and a cookie edit
       dialogue will pop up. You’ll notice that the date, in seconds since the
       epoch  (the epoch is 1 Jan 1970), is not an editable field, whereas the
       human-readable date  is.  Follow  the  format  presented  in  the  edit
       dialogue  box, and as you edit the human-readable date, the expiry date
       in seconds since the epoch will update itself. Please note (as repeated
       in  the  bugs  section  below)  that although dates later than 2038 are
       supposed to present problems, (you’ll see the date in seconds since the
       epoch  become  -1) dates on or after 2036 seem to present problems. I’m
       still looking into this.

   Searching for text strings
       Under the Edit menu, select Find. Type in a string  or  substring  that
       you  wish  to  find,  and  press  the  Find  button.   If the string or
       substring is found anywhere  in  a  cookie,  that  cookie  will  become
       selected,  and  the  view  will  scroll  to  that cookie, if necessary.
       Pressing Find again will search for the next instance, or pop up a "not
       found" dialogue box if the string wasn’t found. In its current version,
       gtkcookie isn’t yet smart enough to re-start a search from the  top  of
       the  cookie list, so if you need to search from the top, hightlight the
       first cookie, and then do your search.

   Deleting cookies
       Right click on a cookie, and select "Delete" from the  popup  menu,  or
       click on the cookie and press "Del" on your keyboard.

   Creating cookies
       Press  the  "Create  Cookie" button. A cookie with dummy values will be
       added to the cookie list, and the "Edit Cookie" dialogue box  will  pop
       up  so that you can edit the new cookie to your liking.  Note that even
       if you press "Cancel" immediately after creating a new cookie, the  new
       cookie,  with its dummy values, will still be in the list.  You’ll have
       to delete the cookie manually.

FILES

       ~/.netscape/cookies
              The Netscape cookie file in your home directory

SEE ALSO

       None

NOTES

       None

AUTHOR

       Manni Wood: mwood@sig.bsh.com or pq1036@110.net

BUGS

       1. The "Edit Cookie" dialogue has problems with  on-the-fly  conversion
       of  human-readable  dates  to the number of seconds since the epoch for
       dates later than 2036. For some reason, despite the fact that the  date
       is  supposed  to overflow in 2038, the C function strptime flubs up the
       conversion for dates larger than 1036.

       Unfortunately, this means that when you edit a cookie whose expiry date
       is  after 2036, the edit dialogue box shows the number of seconds since
       the epoch as -1. There is currently  no  workaround  to  this  problem,
       besides moving the date back 2 years.

       2.  Although  the  "find"  feature  is supposed to always highlight and
       scroll to any found item, sometimes, the item becomes highlighted,  but
       is outside the current view.

       3.  The  file  open and save dialogues don’t show directories beginning
       with a dot  (such  as  .netscape!)  but  typing  such  directory  names
       manually will work.

       4.  Double-clicking  in  the  scroll  bar will pop up the "Edit Cookie"
       dialogue box for the currently highlighted cookie.

       5. Editing the cookie file while Netscape is running is futile, because
       Netscape will re-write the cookie file when you exit Netscape, based on
       what’s in its memory, not what’s in the cookie file. A popup menu in my
       programme  warns  you  of  a  running netscape... unless you’re running
       Netscape 4.5. Netscape 4.5 doesn’t seem to create the  same  lock  file
       that earlier Netscapes used to.

                                 October 1998                     gtkcookie(1)