[ ijbswa-Feature Requests-1049575 ] Rewrite cookie expiration date/time

Feature Requests item #1049575, was opened at 2004-10-18 14:00
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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

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Comment By: Niall Douglas (ned14)
Date: 2012-07-25 02:35

Message:
Thanks for looking into it.

Niall

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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.

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