Re: Innocent mistake in booking flight with Ryan air

On Thu, 9 Jul 2009 20:46:18 +0100, "Mr X" <invalid@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

If they *do* in fact do such a thing, you could make savings by
copying or making a favourable cookie.

How could you do that?

I do not know a great deal about the technicalities of cookies, and so
it is possible that I have made some incorrect assumptions. AFAIAA
cookies consist of a text file and a coresponding entry in an index
file. I've never had cause to want to do so, but I should not think
it would be difficult to copy across a cookie file and add an entry to
the index file. Much of the information in the cookies are either
plain text or encoded with what appears to be a simple Mime or
UUencode type method. It should therefore be possible to change the
information contained in the cookie as well, though I suppose the site
can always encode or checksum the cookie to prevent such alteration.

I suspect that you could duplicate *all* of another person's cookies
by copying the entire contents of their cookies folder to your cookies
folder, including their index file.

I don't know if they do and if they do whether they
give best prices to new or old customers. I believe it was a post on
uk.legal that claimed that Amazon did such a thing.

If any company does such a thing, surely it would be more sensible for
them to get the historic information from their own customer database
than to rely on information received from a potentially altered cookie
obtained from the customer's PC.

--
Cynic

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