This class is for objects that represent a "cookie jar" -- that is, a database of all the http cookies that a given lwp::useragent object knows about.

cookies are a general mechanism which server side connections can use to both store and retrieve information on the client side of the connection. for more information about cookies refer to and . http::cookies also implements the new style cookies described in rfc 2965. the two variants of cookies are supposed to be able to coexist happily.

instances of the class http::cookies are able to store a collection of set-cookie2: and set-cookie: headers and are able to use this information to initialize cookie-headers in http::request objects. the state of a http::cookies object can be saved in and restored from files.