Exercise: View and Manage Your Cookies

In this lesson, we'll go through an exercise to manage your browser's cookies.

We'll cover the following

Viewing Cookies For a Page

For most browsers, while you can’t view your entire cookie file, you can view cookies for individual websites.

  1. Open up any website of your choice.
  2. Open up the developer tools. All browsers have some form of developer tools.
  3. Click on the storage tab to view details of the cookies that the website has set.

Managing Cookies

Most modern browsers allow some degree of cookie management (viewing, editing and deleting), which can be integral to protecting your privacy on the Internet. Here are some links to instructions on how to manage cookies for popular browsers. Unfortunately, for most browsers, all cookies cannot be viewed at once, but they can be managed.

Chrome

Google has provided some instructions to view cookies on Chrome. Have a look!

Safari

This Apple Support page has some instructions on managing cookies. While you can’t view the content of the cookie files, you can view which websites have stored cookies on your browser.

Firefox

Here’s an official page to manage cookies on Firefox.

Now that we have a good understanding of HTTP, and HTTP specific constructs, let’s move on to a new protocol!

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