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Cocoa Cookies

Cocoa Cookies - 0.9

manage cookies in Safari, NetNewsWire, Shiira

All Time: (4.3)
This Version: (3.0)
Current Version: 0.9
Release Date: 2006-07-06
License: Freeware
Downloads (this version): 3,684
Downloads (all versions): 7,936

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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:

Now a Universal Binary with a cute new icon.

Operating System Requirements:

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

  • Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
  • Mac OS X 10.4 PPC

Additional Requirements:

  • Mac OS X 10.4 or later
  • Universal Binary

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Feedback Summary:

This Version:
Overall Rating: (3.0) Features: (3.0) Support: (1.0)
Ease of Use: (4.0) Quality / Stability: (3.0) Price: (5.0)
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Cocoa Cookies Troubleshooting ReportDoesn't work with Safari 3.2.1 - Version: 0.9, 4/9/2009 02:11AM PST

(1 of 3 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.
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Cocoa Cookies ReviewHandy, but still irritating - Version: 0.9, 1/31/2008 12:00AM PST

(3 of 4 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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Cocoa Cookies Usage TipUse With Care... - Version: 0.9, 12/26/2007 04:46PM PST

(2 of 3 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.
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