Is there a program that would let me tell the what was contained in a cookies? [Not just veiw the contents, but decrypt or make sense of the contents] ThanX!

If the contents are encrypted, then it is probably something that you are not meant to have stored as plaintext (eg. a password).

A program that decrypted anything right away would be nice.

Well, like a yahoo cookies. I have like like 4 of them, and want to know what each of them is about, like if they have my passwd, or what in them.

Oh, I guess they aren't encrypted, sinc they do display in plain text, but I can't make much sense of them. Is there any way to find out?

I thought cookies were just a little text file that websites put whatever they wanter into theem, with no standard structure? Maybe Im wrong.

The web browser is responsible for encrypting the content, so the cookie's data might be plaintext/readable.

Doesn't Netscape put all the cookie info into one big "supercookie"? Just Curious.

I got Karenware's cookie veiwer, and I can look at the cookies. Like here's a CNN.com cookies "seen(sh:1&id:0)" that's wha they say. IS there a way to interrept the meaning of them?

Though it's already been said, I'll re-iterate that there is no standard format in use here. Cookies are for storing ANY data a web site wants you to store.

Ok, I was under the impresion that you could get information from cookies. Thanx, anyway.

Well, you can if the format is sensible. E.g. bash.org puts 'theme THEME_NUMBER' in the cookie, so the format makes sense. Another site might put 'passwd MD5-HASHED-PASSWORD' or something to that effect. The names probably have something to do with the names that are used in the software that generates the site to make it easier to read (or something like that).