Location of Opera cookies set to expire after restart (time 0)

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Where does Opera store cookies that are destroyed or expire after the browser is restarted?

I'm looking for information on where these temporary cookies, with time expire (0), and that are deleted after a browser restart.

I tested a file "cookies4.dat" using a hex editor and it doesn't have the temporary cookies stored inside.

Does Opera create a temporary file for these cookies and delete them after restart? If that was so, where are they?

Or does it store them in RAM?

marc

Posted 2010-04-05T08:59:22.287

Reputation: 281

Answers

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Opera stores cookies in memory, and commits persistent cookies every now and then to disk. Session cookies, or cookies with "0" as expire time is not written to disk at all.

Quai

Posted 2010-04-05T08:59:22.287

Reputation: 61

Any source for this information? I'm curious. – Gnoupi – 2010-05-18T16:04:08.707

I'm a Opera Software employee, and the answer is my understanding of the relevant documentation and source code. (disclamer; I'm not a browser developer, and the code base is large. There might be things I have overlooked) – Quai – 2010-05-18T17:20:00.920

thank you for details. Enjoy your stay on this site, there are occasionally some Opera questions which would require an "insider" answer. – Gnoupi – 2010-05-25T14:50:23.270

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