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Using a cookie to access websites

Well, i have set up a website that collects someone's blog on Blogger.com The blog however requires one to be invited by a user in order to view it. I have been invited and i accepted it. When i enter with my other browser application (i have a few, Opera, Mozilla and Internet Explorer) my email address wasn't saved. And on Internet Explorer, i was logged in as User A on Google. I believe my data was stored in a cookie session therefore i guess since i could locate my cookie file which is in text (.txt) i wonder if i could use the cookie on my server and give access to anyone that enters the blog through my website without being invited?

If i have made what i have said hard to understand, i don't mind rewriting it! Just tell me!
Mar 23 '08 #1
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ronverdonk
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Then plese explain a bit more, because I am a bit confused.
Do you want to use a cookie, written by a website to your client, to be used by others than your client?

I wouldn't do that because probably you don't know what the cookie data format is, but you can guess.

On the other hand, I think that is 'illegal' use of entry, ei.e. breaking in, to allow other, not invited or accepted, users to access the 3rd party web server.

Ronald
Mar 23 '08 #2
Ok, well, i apologise for that inconvenience. Moving on, what i really meant was that i have a cookie that i was granted:

>>Someone invited me to her blog and i accepted. I was inside with my gmail account on the browser, Internet Explorer 7. I managed to look through cookies and found one that was related to the blog i visited, which was blocked to people who were not invited but probably with that cookie, i managed to get in. I tried that with another browser, which i was logged on, on another gmail account. Taking note, i have tried accepting someone's else invitation as well, and i found a cookie i never seen before, only when i was invited and i accepted, i was allowed into the website and the cookie was there soon after.

So i wonder, since i managed to locate the cookie files, can i upload them to my server and run them with PHP and give people access to the website that was blocked, only with a specific cookie, will they be able to access. I have probably, that specific cookie. I wonder if i can run the cookie.

About the format etc, i don't know. I wonder if you can explain more to me about cookie formats. If possible, referring some tutorials and articles should be able to clear my misunderstandings. Back to topic!

It's not a server in any case. It's a friend's blog. I know how i should use PHP. I am not really hacking. Instead, i have been trying to experiment ways to connect to my other community, giving a sneak preview of what my community is like, limiting access to users with a cookie that's on my server, and almost impossible to get to be manipulated =D I hope you get me.
Mar 23 '08 #3

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