Cocoa Release: Cocoa Cookies 0.8

Cocoa Cookies is a simple Cocoa app that helps you search for (with regex) and delete (with undo) HTTP cookies stored in the shared Cocoa cookies storage used by Safari, NetNewsWire, Shiira, and others.

Get Cocoa Cookies 0.8 (96kb)

All of my Cocoa developer tools can be found at Scandalous Software.

New in this version:

• Cookie Protection! - The cookie table now has another column with a ‘Safe Lock’ header icon and check boxes for every cookie (or group of cookies). If you select the check box next to a cookie (or group), selected cookies will not be affected by ‘Delete’ or ‘Delete All’ actions from within Cocoa Cookies.

Note that you may still delete ‘protected’ cookies via Safari, NNW, Shiira or any other cocoa app that uses the shared cocoa cookie storage. So you should always search, manage and delete cookies via Cocoa Cookies in order to take advantage of this ‘protection’. This shouldn’t be much of a problem, as Cocoa Cookies (with regex search, batch delete and undo capabilities) provides a much more full-featured UI from which to manage your cookies.

This cookie protection does not extend the life of a cookie beyond its specified duration. Protected cookies will still be lost when they pass their expire date. (but this is probably what you would prefer anyway)

If there is demand, I can look into adding support for cookie protection from other apps (like Safari) as well. But after having used Safari’s cookie-managing UI and Cocoa Cookies, I believe that no one will really care to use anything but Cocoa Cookies to manage their cookies if they have a real need. Therefore, I don’t see much value in pursuing that functionality.

What is this new feature good for? It allows you to select cookies that you care about and then be a bit more care-free about deleting cookies from within Cocoa Cookies.