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 <articleinfo>
 <title>Cookies</title>
 <authorgroup>
 <author>&Krishna.Tateneni; &Krishna.Tateneni.mail;</author>
 <author>&Jost.Schenck; &Jost.Schenck.mail;</author>
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 </authorgroup>
 
 <date>2016-11-10</date>
 <releaseinfo>Frameworks 5.29</releaseinfo>
 
 <keywordset>
 <keyword>KDE</keyword>
 <keyword>Systemsettings</keyword>
 <keyword>cookie</keyword>
 </keywordset>
 
 </articleinfo>
 
 <sect1 id="cookie">
 <title>Cookies</title>
 
 <para>Cookies are a mechanism used by web sites to store and retrieve
 information using your browser.  For example, a web site may allow you
 to customize the content and layout of the pages you see, so that your
 choices are persistent across different visits to that web site.</para>
 
 <para>The web site is able to remember your preferences by storing a
 cookie on your computer. Then, on future visits, the web site retrieves
 the information stored in the cookie to format the content of the site
 according to your previously specified preferences.</para>
 
 <para>Thus, cookies play a very useful role in web browsing.
 Unfortunately, web sites often store and retrieve information in cookies
 without your explicit knowledge or consent. Some of this information may
 be quite useful to the web site owners, for example, by allowing them to
 collect summary statistics on the number of visits different areas of
 the web sites get, or to customize banner advertising.</para>
 
 <para>The cookies page allows you to set policies
 for the use of cookies when you are browsing the web with the
 &konqueror; web browser.</para>
 
 <warning><para>Note that the policies that you set using this control
 module will <emphasis>not</emphasis> apply to other web browsers such
 as &firefox;.</para></warning>
 
 <sect2 id="cookie-policy">
 
 <title>Policy</title>
 
 <para>Using the <guilabel>Policy</guilabel> tab, you can configure the
 &kde; applications that will handle cookies. You can do this by specifying a
 general cookie policy as well as special cookie policies for certain
 domains or hosts.</para>
 
 <para>The top of the policy tab has a check box labeled <guilabel>Enable
 cookies</guilabel>. If you leave this unchecked, cookies will be
 completely disabled. However, this may make browsing rather
 inconvenient, especially as some web sites require the use of browsers
 with cookies enabled.</para>
 
 <para>You will probably want to enable cookies and then set
 specific policies on how you want them to be handled.</para>
 
 <para>The first group of options create settings that apply to all cookies.</para>
 
 <variablelist>
 <varlistentry>
 <term><guilabel>Only accept cookies from originating server</guilabel></term>
 <listitem>
 <para>Some pages try to set cookies from servers other than the one
 you are seeing the &HTML; page from.  For example,
 they show you advertisements, and the advertisements are from another
 computer, often one that belongs to a large advertising group.  These
 advertisements may try to set a cookie which would allow them to
 track the pages you view across multiple web sites.</para>
 <para>Enabling this option will mean only cookies that come from the
 same web server as you are explicitly connecting to will be
 accepted.</para>
 </listitem>
 </varlistentry>
 <varlistentry>
 <term><guilabel>Automatically accept session cookies</guilabel></term>
 <listitem>
 
 <para>An increasingly common use for cookies is not to track your
 movements across many visits to a web site, but to just follow what you
 do during one single visit.  Session cookies are saved as long as you
 are looking at the site, and deleted when you leave it.</para>
 
 <para>Web sites can use this information for various things, most
 commonly it is a convenience so that you do not have to keep logging in
 to view pages.  For example, on a webmail site, without some kind of
 session <acronym>ID</acronym>, you would have to give your password
 again for each email you want to read.  There are other ways to
 achieve this, but cookies are simple and very common.</para>
 
 <para>Enabling this option means that session cookies are always
 accepted, even if you don't accept any other kind, and even if you
 choose to reject cookies from a particular site, session cookies from
 that site will be accepted.</para>
 </listitem>
 </varlistentry>
 </variablelist>
 
 <para>The section for <guilabel>Default Policy</guilabel> sets some
 further options that are mutually exclusive &mdash; you can choose only one
 of these options as the default, but you are free to set a different
 option for any specific web server.</para>
 <note><para>Site specific policies always take precedence over the default 
 policy.</para></note>
 
 <variablelist>
 <varlistentry>
 <term><guilabel>Accept all cookies</guilabel></term>
 <listitem>
 <para>If this option is selected, all cookies will be accepted without
 asking for confirmation.</para>
 </listitem>
 </varlistentry>
 <varlistentry>
 <term><guilabel>Accept until end of session</guilabel></term>
 <listitem>
 <para>Cookies will be accepted, but they will expire at the end
 of the session.</para>
 </listitem>
 </varlistentry>
 <varlistentry>
 <term><guilabel>Ask for confirmation</guilabel></term>
 <listitem>
 <para>If this option is selected, you will be asked for confirmation
 every time a cookie is stored or retrieved. You can selectively accept
 or reject each cookie. The confirmation dialog will also allow you to
 set a domain specific policy, if you do not want to confirm each
 cookie for that domain.</para>
 </listitem>
 </varlistentry>
 <varlistentry>
 <term><guilabel>Reject all cookies</guilabel></term>
 <listitem>
 <para>If this option is selected, all cookies will be rejected without
 asking for confirmation.</para>
 </listitem>
 </varlistentry>
 </variablelist>
 
 <para>In addition to the default policy for handling of cookies, which you can
 set by selecting one of the three options described above, you can also set
 policies for specific host domains using the controls in the <guilabel>Site
 Policy</guilabel> group.</para>
 
 <para>The Ask, Accept, Accept until end of session, or Reject policy can be applied to a specific
 domain by clicking on the <guibutton>New...</guibutton> button, which
 brings up a dialog. In this dialog, you can type the name of the
 domain (with a leading dot), then select the policy you want to apply
 to this domain. Note that entries may also get added while you are
 browsing, if the default policy is to ask for confirmation, and you
 choose a general policy for a specific host (for example, by selecting
 <guilabel>Reject</guilabel> when asked to
 confirm a cookie).</para>
 
 <para>You can also select a specific host domain from the list and click the
 <guibutton>Change...</guibutton> button to choose a different policy for that
 domain than the one shown in the list.</para>
 
 <para>To delete a domain specific policy, choose a domain from the list, and
 then click the <guibutton>Delete</guibutton> button. The default policy will
 apply to domains which have been deleted from the list.</para>
 
 </sect2>
 
 <sect2 id="cookie-management">
 <title>Management</title>
 
 <para>In the <guilabel>Management</guilabel> tab you can browse and selectively
 delete cookies that have been set in the past.</para>
 
 <para>In the upper part of this dialog, you can see a list of domains displayed
   as a tree. Click on the little <guiicon>&gt;</guiicon> next to a domain to see all
 cookies that have been set for this particular target domain. If you select one
 of these cookies, you will notice that its contents will show up in the frame
 <guilabel>Details</guilabel> below.</para>
 
 <para>By clicking the <guibutton>Delete</guibutton> button you can now delete the selected
 cookie. Click <guibutton>Delete All</guibutton> to delete all cookies stored.</para>
 
 <para>If a domain is selected, you can use <guibutton>Configure Policy...</guibutton> to set
 a site policy.</para>
 
 <para>Choose <guibutton>Reload List</guibutton> to reload the list
 from your hard disk. You might want to do this if you have had the
 module open and are testing web sites, or have made many changes in the
 module itself.</para>
 
 </sect2>
 
 </sect1>
 
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