Where does wwwoffle store its cookies?
September 10, 2005 9:09 PM Subscribe
Where does wwwoffle store its cookies?
I'm having some trouble with user authentication on the New York Review of Books website: when I'm using wwwoffle, I usually can't log in. From looking through ethereal traces, my guess is that old cookies are causing the problem. There's a workaround: delete all cookies used by wwwoffle. Unfortunately the only way I know of to do this right now is to delete wwwoffle's cache directory and reinstall wwwoffle.
Google didn't find anything useful. Before I start searching the wwwoffle source code, I thought I'd ask if anyone on AskMe knew the answer already.
(wwwoffle is a simple proxy web server with cache, first developed for people with dialup connections. It's very cool. Your browser treats wwwoffle as a proxy server running on localhost:8080. When you're online, wwwoffle caches any pages that you download, and when you're offline, you can look at any of the pages that are in wwwoffle's cache; any pages you request that aren't cached will be fetched when you're online. I'm running it on a Zaurus SL-5500, a handheld Linux computer, so that I can read NYRB articles on the bus.)
I'm having some trouble with user authentication on the New York Review of Books website: when I'm using wwwoffle, I usually can't log in. From looking through ethereal traces, my guess is that old cookies are causing the problem. There's a workaround: delete all cookies used by wwwoffle. Unfortunately the only way I know of to do this right now is to delete wwwoffle's cache directory and reinstall wwwoffle.
Google didn't find anything useful. Before I start searching the wwwoffle source code, I thought I'd ask if anyone on AskMe knew the answer already.
(wwwoffle is a simple proxy web server with cache, first developed for people with dialup connections. It's very cool. Your browser treats wwwoffle as a proxy server running on localhost:8080. When you're online, wwwoffle caches any pages that you download, and when you're offline, you can look at any of the pages that are in wwwoffle's cache; any pages you request that aren't cached will be fetched when you're online. I'm running it on a Zaurus SL-5500, a handheld Linux computer, so that I can read NYRB articles on the bus.)
Response by poster: Thanks, nmiell. I tried writing a bash script to remove the Set-Cookie lines from the cached files; unfortunately that didn't work. But removing the www.nybooks.com subdirectory works, so at least I don't have to reinstall wwwoffle.
posted by russilwvong at 3:06 PM on September 14, 2005
posted by russilwvong at 3:06 PM on September 14, 2005
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Having said that, it appears that wwwoffle is rewriting the HTML files it caches so that they have an embedded Set-Cookie META http-equiv, which is (to say the least) a really stupid thing to do.
So, basically, your solution of deleting wwwoffle's cache appears to be the correct way to delete it's cookies.
There appears to be a DisableHTMLMetaSetCookie preference which may fix your problem if you turn it on.
posted by nmiell at 9:43 PM on September 10, 2005