[4th_d41m3]

Hi! I'm a new bie, can anyone help me how to read cookies on my computer?do I need some tools to read cookies?thanks before...

[ScottGem]

Chocolate chip? Oatmeal? Ginger snaps?

Seriously, why do you want to?

[4th_d41m3]

I want to learn how to read data from cookies on my computer,like my id n password for site "a" for example or my password for login, something like that scottgem

[Perito]

Actually, cookies are just text files. If you browse to

C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Cookies

where [username] is the name of the user, you will see a number of text files. Double-click on them and something (usually Notepad.exe) will open them so you can read them.

That will not prove to be very helpful, however. You will be able to read and understand some things in the cookie, but other things will just be numbers or random characters. These pieces of information are understood by the web site that put them on your computer, but not by us "mere mortals." They might actually be encrypted.

When you open a cookie in Notepad, you'll see a lot of square boxes. Those are usually linefeed characters. They separate the bits of information in the cookie.

I looked for something that would display the fields of a cookie, but I didn't find anything. I guess that just proves that there's not that much useful, understandable information in a cookie.

[ScottGem]

First, please use the Answer This Question options to ask a follow-up. Don't start a new thread. I've merged your threads for you.

As Perito said, the contents of cookies are not generally readable. The web site that creates the cookie uses an encoded system so that other sites can't read their cookies.

So you will NOT be able to read your logins and passwords (or those of other users on your PC).

[4th_d41m3]

Ups!. sorry... hehehe,that mean it's a dead end?is it really that I can't collect data from my cookies?is there another way or software that can do that?thanks again for answering my dumb question

[ScottGem]

Nope