Re: modify non-persistent cookies

["MICHAEL GERMONY" <mgermony () mandtbank com>]

If you are talking about in transit, then Yes, you can, as long as there is path symmetry through or past the device 
you want to perform it. Either that or you have to be a man-in-the-middle. Content switches like F5 and Cisco CSS can 
definitely do it, I know cause I've tested it- basically using a CSS as a cookie "translator". In this case I had to 
use the CSS scripting language to rewrite the HTTP headers on the fly...you could do the same thing with some C code 
and a promiscuous net card/driver if you wanted a cheaper way to do it. It would be a challenge, but do-able.

If you are talking on host or client side, then I suppose you would be able to do it by writing some code that bumps 
the IP stack to redirect L5-L7 through a "cookie-cutter" before it gets to the browser and/or before it leaves the 
machine.

FWIW
Mike

> > > "mono toy" <mono () spurious biz> 12/17/02 05:55AM >>>
dear list,

is there a way to modify the contents of a non-persistent cookie one
receives?

thanks!

nico

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