Feedback> Can I make up my own fake cookies (wafers) to feed to servers?
Yes, using the wafer option. We coined the term wafer to describe cookies chosen by a user, not the Web server. Servers may not find wafers as tasty as the cookies they make themselves. But users may enjoy controlling servers’ diets for various reasons, such as the following. • Users who consider cookies to be an unwelcome intrusion and a waste of their disk space can respond in kind. By writing “signature wafers” they can express their feelings about cookies, in a place that the people in charge of them are most likely to notice. • Sites running a proxy that logs cookies to a file (such as the Internet Junkbuster does with the jarfile option on) may want to notify servers that their cookies are being intercepted, deleted or copied. One possible reason for doing this is the uncertain copyright status of cookie strings. Nothing here should be taken as legal advice: we are simply raising a question for any interested parties to consider, and make no representation that such measures ar
