Hi, I was wondering about the safety of using cookies. The main question I have is: Can people add cookies to their own PC and make your browser think they are placed by a website?? I remember that, when using IE6 long time ago, the cookies were just stored in small text files and I thought, then (being 12 years of age), that I could just add one myself. I'm not an expert of how browsers use and store cookies so I can't imagine how safe they are. So, my main question was: Can people add cookies to their own PC and make your browser think they are placed by a website?? thanks in advance, Steven Roose
Yes. You'd need to know the format of the cookie though, which may be difficult to determine, but there's nothing to stop you constructing one with a text or hex editor and placing it in the appropriate directory.
Sorry. I didn't realize that. I copied it to here: http://www.go4expert.com/showthread.php?t=16641 Although I think I posted it to the forums instead of the articles by mistake. Feel free to move it if it makes a difference.
You can use Firefox to edit cookies and get the add-ons from this link https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search?q=cookie+edit&cat=all
