From: SourceForge.net <no...@so...> - 2012-07-25 09:35:26
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Feature Requests item #1049575, was opened at 2004-10-18 14:00 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by ned14 You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=361118&aid=1049575&group_id=11118 Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: funct: content modification Group: future Status: Pending Resolution: None Priority: 5 Private: No Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Assigned to: Fabian Keil (fabiankeil) Summary: Rewrite cookie expiration date/time Initial Comment: Problem description: With reliable operating systems and browsers, and always-on Internet connections, it is tempting to leave a browser running, sometimes for months. This defeats the purpose of using session cookies (i.e., if the "session" lasts several months, a user can get tracked all over the 'Net). Suggested solution: Although there are many possible solutions which might involve having Privoxy cache cookies, etc., probably the best solution would be to provide an action which caused any received cookies' expiration dates/times to be rewritten as a user-configurable, relative time in the future. For example, the user might specify a default cookie-lifetime of one hour. Each time an inbound cookie matched that action, Privoxy would query the system for current date, add one hour to it, change the cookie's expiration, then forward it to the client browser. The result of this would be similar to session cookies, without the need to remember to either quit the browser or empty the cookie jar several times per day. Thank you in advance for considering this idea. Rick Sykes rksykes(AT)sbcglobal.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Niall Douglas (ned14) Date: 2012-07-25 02:35 Message: Thanks for looking into it. Niall ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Fabian Keil (fabiankeil) Date: 2012-07-23 07:40 Message: Thanks for the suggestion and please excuse the delayed response. I agree that this would be useful and will look into implementing it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=361118&aid=1049575&group_id=11118 |