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<h1>+++ Cookie Jar Page Help +++</h1>

The Cookie Jar Page displays all of the unexpired cookies you have
accumulated in the hypothetical Cookie Jar. The cookies are
obtained via Set-Cookie MIME headers in replies from http servers,
and are used for <A HREF="../Lynx_users_guide.html#Cookies">State Management</A>
across successive requests to the servers.

The cookies are listed by domain (server's Fully Qualified
Domain Name, or site-identifying portion of the FQDN), and in order
of decreasing specificity (number of slash-separated symbolic elements
in the path attribute of the cookie). When Lynx sends requests
to an http server whose address tail-matches a domain in the
Cookie Jar, all its cookies with a path which
head-matches the path in the URL for that request are included as a
Cookie MIME header. The 'allow' setting for accepting cookies
from each domain (always, never, or via prompt) also is indicated in the
listing.

The listing also shows the port (normally 80) of the URL
for the request which caused the cookie to be sent, and whether the
secure flag is set for the cookie, in which case it will be
sent only via secure connections (presently, only SSL). The
Maximum Gobble Date, i.e., when the cookie is intended to
expire, also is indicated. Also, a server may change the expiration date,
or cause the cookie to be deleted, in its replies to subsequent requests
from Lynx. If the server included any explanatory comments in its
Set-Cookie MIME headers, those also are displayed in the listing.

The domain=value pairs, and each cookie's name=value, are
links in the listing. Activating a domain=value link will
invoke a prompt asking whether all cookies in that domain
should be Gobbled (deleted from the Cookie Jar),
and/or whether the domain entry should be Gobbled
if all of its cookies have been Gobbled, or whether to change
the 'allow' setting for that domain. Activating a cookie's
name=value link will cause that particular cookie to be Gobbled.
You will be prompted for confirmations of deletions, to avoid any
accidental Gobbling.
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