NAME

       HTTP::Cookies::Microsoft - access to Microsoft cookies files

SYNOPSIS

        use LWP;
        use HTTP::Cookies::Microsoft;
        use Win32::TieRegistry(Delimiter => "/");
        my $cookies_dir = $Registry->
             {"CUser/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Explorer/Shell Folders/Cookies"};

        $cookie_jar = HTTP::Cookies::Microsoft->new(
                          file     => "$cookies_dir\\index.dat",
                          'delayload' => 1,
                      );
        my $browser = LWP::UserAgent->new;
        $browser->cookie_jar( $cookie_jar );

DESCRIPTION

       This is a subclass of "HTTP::Cookies" which loads Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.x and 6.x
       for Windows (MSIE) cookie files.

       See the documentation for HTTP::Cookies.

METHODS

       The following methods are provided:

       $cookie_jar = HTTP::Cookies::Microsoft->new;
           The constructor takes hash style parameters. In addition to the regular HTTP::Cookies
           parameters, HTTP::Cookies::Microsoft recognizes the following:

             delayload:       delay loading of cookie data until a request
                              is actually made. This results in faster
                              runtime unless you use most of the cookies
                              since only the domain's cookie data
                              is loaded on demand.

CAVEATS

       Please note that the code DOESN'T support saving to the MSIE cookie file format.

AUTHOR

       Johnny Lee <typo_pl@hotmail.com>

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright 2002 Johnny Lee

       This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same
       terms as Perl itself.