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"Remy Lebeau (TeamB)" <no.spam@no.spam.com> wrote in message 
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> "Richard Kavanagh" <dd.foldhill@google-ignore-mail.com> wrote in message
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>> The cookie is stored in IE's cookie directory and looks like this:-
>
> Indy has no concept of IE's cookies (or any other browser's cookies, for
> that matter).  You have to parse the cookie file yourself and then add it 
> to
> the CookieManager manually.
>
>> Going from back to front, I assume the star is some terminating symbol
>
> Yes.
>
>> the previous four numbers are FILETIME numbers indicating I know what 
>> not.
>
> From back to front, they are creation time high/low DWORDs and expire time
> high/low DWORDs.  More specifically, they are Win32 API FILETIME values.
>
>> Not sure what 1536 stands for.
>
> Flags that control the cookie's behavior.
>
>> The first two probably mean authority and some over-complicated password
>
> They are the cookie's name and value.
>
>> followed by the domain.
>
> It is the domain and path that the cookie is valid for.
>
>> Looking at past correspondence on the same or similar subjects all they
>> say is that the CookieManager does it all for you
>
> Correct.
>
>> there is no CookieManager.
>
> Yes, there is.  TIdHTTP has a CookieManager property of type
> TIdCookieManager.  Such a component exists on the Component Palette.  If 
> you
> do not provide your own CookieManager object to that property, then a
> default one is created internally when TIdHTTP sends a request.
>
>> How do I instantiate one and more importantly initialize it with the 
>> above
> cookie?
>
> Indy's cookie support requires the cookie text to be formatted according 
> to
> how they are transmitted over HTTP, not how they are stored in files.
> Cookie storage is a browser-specific operation.  Only the HTTP format is
> standardized.  As such, you will have to load the cookie data from file 
> and
> re-format into a text value that Indy can consume properly.  For example:
>
>    ULONG ulFlags = 1536;
>
>    TIdCookieRFC2109 *Cookie =
> IdHTTP1->CookieManager->CookieCollection->Add();
>
>    Cookie->CookieName = "auth";
>    Cookie->Value = "7e5a7cec0769ed530cad95244bb62b44";
>    Cookie->Domain = "einstein.phys.uwm.edu";
>    Cookie->Path = "/";
>    Cookie->Secure = (ulFlags & 0x0001);
>
> Refer to the following page for more details:
>
>    HTTP::Cookies support for Microsoft Internet Explorer
>    http://www.geocities.com/typopl/msieinfo.htm
>
>
> Gambit

Thanks Remy,
 This has given me a start. However there is still no CookieManager. IdHTTP 
has a property that is a pointer to something called CookieManager of type 
TIdCookieManager; however its value is NULL. So how do I instantiate and 
initialise one. The help files are not clear to me.
Richard