---
name: "HTTP::Cookies::Microsoft"
section: "3pm"
platform: "linux"
package: "perl-http-cookies"
version: "6.12-1"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/HTTP::Cookies::Microsoft"
---

# HTTP::Cookies::Microsoft(3pm)

Access to Microsoft cookies files

## NAME

HTTP::Cookies::Microsoft - Access to Microsoft cookies files

## VERSION

version 6.12

## SYNOPSIS

```
 use LWP;
 use HTTP::Cookies::Microsoft;
 use Win32::TieRegistry(Delimiter => "/");
 my $cookies_dir = $Registry->
      {"CUser/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Explorer/Shell Folders/Cookies"};
 $cookie_jar = HTTP::Cookies::Microsoft->new(
                   file     => "$cookies_dir\\index.dat",
                   'delayload' => 1,
               );
 my $browser = LWP::UserAgent->new;
 $browser->cookie_jar( $cookie_jar );
```

## DESCRIPTION

This is a subclass of `"HTTP::Cookies"` which loads Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.x and 6.x for Windows (MSIE) cookie files.

See the documentation for HTTP::Cookies.

## METHODS

The following methods are provided:

- $cookie\_jar = HTTP::Cookies::Microsoft-\>new;

  The constructor takes hash style parameters. In addition to the regular HTTP::Cookies parameters, HTTP::Cookies::Microsoft recognizes the following:

  ```
    delayload:       delay loading of cookie data until a request
                     is actually made. This results in faster
                     runtime unless you use most of the cookies
                     since only the domain's cookie data
                     is loaded on demand.
  ```

## CAVEATS

Please note that the code DOESN'T support saving to the MSIE cookie file format.

## AUTHOR

Johnny Lee \<typo\_pl@hotmail.com\>

## COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2002 Johnny Lee

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

## AUTHOR

Gisle Aas \<gisle@activestate.com\>

## COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2002 by Gisle Aas.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.