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<h1>Cookie Jar Page Help</h1>
<p>The Cookie Jar Page displays all of the unexpired cookies you
have accumulated in the hypothetical <em>Cookie Jar</em>. The
cookies are obtained via <em>Set-Cookie</em> 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.</p>
<p>The cookies are listed by <em>domain</em> (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 <em>path</em> attribute of the cookie).
When Lynx sends requests to an http server whose address
tail-matches a <em>domain</em> in the <em>Cookie Jar</em>, all
its cookies with a <em>path</em> which head-matches the path in
the URL for that request are included as a <em>Cookie</em> MIME
header. The 'allow' setting for accepting cookies from each
domain (always, never, or via prompt) also is indicated in the
listing.</p>
<p>The listing also shows the <em>port</em> (normally 80) of the
URL for the request which caused the cookie to be sent, and
whether the <em>secure</em> flag is set for the cookie, in which
case it will be sent only via secure connections (presently, only
SSL). The <em>Maximum Gobble Date</em>, 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 <em>Set-Cookie</em> MIME headers,
those also are displayed in the listing.</p>
<p>The <em>domain</em>=value pairs, and each cookie's name=value,
are links in the listing. Activating a <em>domain</em>=value link
will invoke a prompt asking whether all cookies in that
<em>domain</em> should be <em>Gobbled</em> (deleted from the
<em>Cookie Jar</em>), and/or whether the <em>domain</em> entry
should be <em>Gobbled</em> if all of its cookies have been
<em>Gobbled</em>, or whether to change the 'allow' setting for
that <em>domain</em>. Activating a cookie's name=value link will
cause that particular cookie to be <em>Gobbled</em>. You will be
prompted for confirmations of deletions, to avoid any accidental
<em>Gobbling</em>.</p>
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