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I wonder if this is looking at the local machine for a cookie, or the news.ycombinator.com machine for login information, or if it is a coordination between a p
by whitten 12y ago
I wonder if this is looking at the local machine for a cookie, or the news.ycombinator.com machine for login information, or if it is a coordination between a private cookie storing an index that makes sense when combined with the database on the server.
Does anyone know the cookie format for ycombinator?
- wmil 12y agoIt looks the cookie format is just user={hash}, and looking at an older version of the code it matches that up to data loaded from a file called arc/cooks https://github.com/wting/hackernews/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=cookie&type=Code https://github.com/wting/hackernews/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=...