NAME

HTTP::Cookies::Microsoft - access to Microsoft cookies files

SYNOPSIS

 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 );

DESCRIPTION

This is a subclass of HTTP::Cookies which loads Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.x and 6.x for Windows (MSIE) cookie files.

See the documentation for HTTP::Cookies.

CAVEATS

Please note that the code DOESN'T support saving to the MSIE cookie file format.

AUTHOR

Johnny Lee <typo_pl@hotmail.com>

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.