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Subject: [Leica] OT: Eliminating cookies
From: "Howard Sanner" <flagstad@mindspring.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 01:14:37 +0000

   If you want to browse sites that use cookies but don't want 
them to persist, write a little batch file that loads your 
browser and then deletes the cookies (and anything else you don't
want sticking around) at the end of each session. I wrote a
little REXX program to do just that (and to wipe out the cache 
and history), but it could be handled in an MS-DOS batch file,
too. Something like

if exist f:\netscape\cookies del f:\netscape\cookies > nul
f:\netscape\netscape.exe
if exist f:\netscape\cookies del f:\netscape\cookies > nul

would do the trick. The first and last lines are a 
belt-and-suspenders approach to ensuring that cookies are wiped 
out in case Netscape is started by some means other than clicking
on the icon.

						Howard Sanner
						flagstad@mindspring.com