johnny2
johnny2

Reputation: 71

windows cookies index.dat parser

Could someone explain how Internet Exploer cookies stored and how it retrived using the index.dat ,also could someone provide how this binray file is built and if there are a paserer/module/library for it written on perl /python ?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 799

Answers (2)

i_am_jorf
i_am_jorf

Reputation: 54620

Here is a series of blog posts I wrote about index.dat:

Basically you'll need to be able to call the wininet UrlCacheEntry APIs from Perl. I think there is a win32 module that let's you do this.

Upvotes: 2

mscha
mscha

Reputation: 6840

Have a look at HTTP::Cookies::Microsoft, part of libwww-perl.

Upvotes: 3

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