Persistent Cookies
By default, cookies do not persist across sessions. Cookies that have a definite expiration date can be stored in a file determined by $CookieStore. Setting it to Automatic will let the system choose that file.
Initially, $CookieStore is set to None.
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$CookieStore
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Change it to Automatic.
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$CookieStore = Automatic
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This is the file that will contain persistent cookies.
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$CookieStore
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Cookies are stored in unprocessed form. Each line in the following list corresponds to a cookie. Each line will contain either TRUE or FALSE, or both.
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FindList[$CookieStore, {"TRUE", "FALSE"}]
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Visit a website.
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URLRead["amazon.com"]
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Now the cookie store file contains more cookies.
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FindList[$CookieStore, {"TRUE", "FALSE"}]
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