Is it possible to use other browser's cookies ?

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Re: Is it possible to use other browser's cookies ? by dsheroh (Monsignor) on Jul 14, 2007 at 16:36 UTC
It should be, so long as you know where the file Firefox stores them in is. Take a look at LWP::UserAgent's cookie_jar. (It's been quite a while since I last needed to do this, but I'm pretty sure that was how I did it.)	[reply]
Re^2: Is it possible to use other browser's cookies ? by Alien (Monk) on Jul 14, 2007 at 18:15 UTC
I found the cookie file , but when I run the script , HTTP::Cookies complains about the file : `/root/.mozilla/firefox/y71ji1db.default/cookies.txt does not seem to contain cookies at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/HTTP/Cookies.pm line 426, <FILE> line 1.`	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Is it possible to use other browser's cookies ? by daxim (Curate) on Jul 14, 2007 at 20:07 UTC
This is a symptom of that your perl process cannot read the cookies files, judging from the path, probably because of lacking permission. Security advice: Don't browse the web as root, ffs! Use a normal user account. Wiki \| CPAN Testers wiki	[reply]
Re^4: Is it possible to use other browser's cookies ? by Alien (Monk) on Jul 14, 2007 at 20:16 UTC
Re^4: Is it possible to use other browser's cookies ? by spatterson (Pilgrim) on Jul 17, 2007 at 16:11 UTC