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Cocoa Cookies - 0.8

manage cookies in Safari, NetNewsWire, Shiira

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All Time:	(4.3)
Version 0.8:	(5.0)
Selected Version:	0.8
Release Date:	2006-02-07
License:	Freeware
Downloads (version 0.8):	1,501
Downloads (all versions):	7,930

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Product Description:

Cocoa Cookies is a very simple Cocoa app that helps you to search for (with regex) and delete (with undo) HTTP cookies stored in the shared Cocoa cookies storage. Including Undo capabilities!!! "What is the 'shared Cocoa cookies repository'?" I hear you asking... Well... it's a Cocoa API for storing cookies (NSHTTPCookieStorage class to be exact... but that's not important). A few popular Cocoa apps use it to store their cookies in a common, shared repository:

Safari
NetNewsWire
Shiira

Those are the ones I know of... there may be more.

The easiest way to describe Cocoa Cookies is to tell you why I personally needed it. At work, I'm developing a web application for which I am constantly needing to delete specific cookies. I like to test and develop my web app primarily using Safari (occasionally stopping to test in EOMB [Every Other Modern Broswer], of course). Safari is also my preferred browser for personal use, so the number of cookies stored in my version of Safari at any one time is quite large. So when I decide I need to delete a specific cookie for my web app, I have to open Safari preferences, click the 'Security' toolbar icon, click 'Show Cookies' and then visually search thru the list of hundreds of cookies to find the ones that match the domain for my web app ('localhost.local' in this case). That is a pain in the ass. Safari's cookie-browsing UI does not currently include any way to search the stored cookies.

Cocoa Cookies allows you to view the cookies that Safari, or any other Cocoa app, has stored in the share cookie storage. More importantly, Cocoa Cookies contains a search field that provides live 'search-as-you-type' searching on the domains (only the domains) of the cookies stored. Thus, making it much easier to find and delete the specific cookies you are looking for.

Here's an extra bonus... NetNewsWire -- the most popular RSS reader on any platform, not only OS X -- is also a web browser that stores cookies in the shared Cocoa cookie storage. Additionally, NetNewsWire does not provide a UI for managing the cookies you amass while browsing. Use Cocoa Cookies to manage your NetNewsWire cookies!

It's simple, and it needs a little work... but I hope you like it.

What's new in this version:

New in this version:

Cookie Protection! - The cookie table now has another column with a 'Safe Lock' header icon and check boxes for every cookie (or group of cookies). If you select the check box next to a cookie (or group), selected cookies will not be affected by 'Delete' or 'Delete All' actions from within Cocoa Cookies.

Note that you may still delete 'protected' cookies via Safari, NNW, Shiira or any other cocoa app that uses the shared cocoa cookie storage. So you should always search, manage and delete cookies via Cocoa Cookies in order to take advantage of this 'protection'. This shouldn't be much of a problem, as Cocoa Cookies (with regex search, batch delete and undo capabilities) provides a much more full-featured UI from which to manage your cookies.

This cookie protection does not extend the life of a cookie beyond its specified duration. Protected cookies will still be lost when they pass their expire date. (but this is probably what you would prefer anyway)

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.4 PPC

Additional Requirements:

Mac OS X 10.4 or later

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Feedback Summary:

Version 0.8:
Overall Rating:	(5.0)	Features:	(4.0)	Support:	(3.0)
Ease of Use:	(5.0)	Quality / Stability:	(4.0)	Price:	(5.0)

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Doesn't work with Safari 3.2.1 - Version: 0.9, 4/9/2009 02:11AM PST

(1 of 2 users found this comment useful)

robio

Obviously not being maintained anymore so this post is probably a waste of time, but Cocoa Cookies doesn't remove cookies for Safari 3.2.1.

Handy, but still irritating - Version: 0.9, 1/31/2008 12:00AM PST

(3 of 3 users found this comment useful)

mahuti

This application does save a lot of time, I have to admit. However, it does a spotty job at updating cookies listed without a restart of the application. When I use it to test / delete a cookie, I open up CocoaCookies test/delete, then immediately close it. When I open it back up again, I can again check it for any changes to Safari's cookies, but it doesn't seem to do a live update very well.

It would be nice to have a 'reload' button.

Still... it's free, so I'll take what I can get.

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Handy, but still irritating

Use With Care... - Version: 0.9, 12/26/2007 04:46PM PST

(2 of 2 users found this comment useful)

mymomisafish

Before deleting your cookies, be sure to remember that the cookies you "check" are the ones which WILL NOT be deleted ; the NOT checked cookies will be deleted. I am not the brightest cookie (yuk, yuk, yuk), but this is counter intuitive to me. Hope this saves someone from making the same mistake I made.