HTTP::C...crosoft(3)

💾 HTTP::Cookies::Microsoft(3) — the Perl doc, bestie edition 💾

okay so this is one of those User Contributed Perl Documentation pages, and no cap it's a little niche but it's honestly iconic if you're into MSIE archaeology. Stick with me 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

HTTP::Cookies::Microsoft — literally your all-access pass to Microsoft cookies files 🍪

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🎀 VERSION 🎀

version 6.11 — periodt, that's the one we're on 💅

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

bestie, here's the whole vibe in code. copy it exactly, i beg of you:

 use LWP;
 use HTTP::Cookies::Microsoft;
 use Win32::TieRegistry(Delimiter => "/");
 my $cookies_dir = $Registry->
      {"CUser/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Explorer/Shell Folders/Cookies"};

 $cookie_jar = HTTP::Cookies::Microsoft->new(
                   file     => "$cookies_dir\\index.dat",
                   'delayload' => 1,
               );
 my $browser = LWP::UserAgent->new;
 $browser->cookie_jar( $cookie_jar );

like, you pull the cookies dir out of the registry with Win32::TieRegistry, point at index.dat, hand the jar to LWP::UserAgent, and you're soooo done ✨

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so this whole thing is a subclass of HTTP::Cookies, and what it does is load up Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.x and 6.x for Windows (MSIE, iykyk) cookie files. it's giving time capsule 🕰️

and fr fr, go read the documentation for HTTP::Cookies — that's where all the base behavior lives, this page is just the MSIE-flavored topping 💜

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🌈 METHODS 🌈

the following methods are provided — yes, it's a short list, she's lowkey minimal and we love her for it:

• $cookie_jar = HTTP::Cookies::Microsoft->new; — the constructor, and it takes hash style parameters 💫

so, in addition to the regular HTTP::Cookies parameters, HTTP::Cookies::Microsoft also recognizes this one:

• delayload: — delays loading of cookie data until a request is actually made 🔥 this results in faster runtime unless you use most of the cookies, since only the domain's cookie data is loaded on demand. it's giving lazy-loading main character energy 👑

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💀 CAVEATS 💀

not me having to break this to you: please note that the code DOESN'T support saving to the MSIE cookie file format. read-only situation, bestie. no writing back. 😭

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👑 AUTHOR (the first one) 👑

Johnny Lee <typo_pl@hotmail.com> — respect the og 🫶

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⭐ COPYRIGHT ⭐

Copyright 2002 Johnny Lee

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. slay, honestly 💅

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🧚 AUTHOR (yes, again, there's two) 🧚

Gisle Aas <gisle@activestate.com> — second author, also iconic, we stan both 👑

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🍓 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE 🍓

This software is copyright (c) 2002 by Gisle Aas.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself. so like, go off, remix it, it's yours 🌈

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and that's the whole page, no cap 💖

okay so that's the tea — and if you need the receipts, this was perl v5.42.0, dated 2024-03-08, filed under HTTP::C...crosoft(3). mwah, bye bestie 💋🎀