What is Cookie Pal?

Cookie Pal is a complete Internet cookie management system for Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000. Cookie Pal works with your web browser to give you complete control over the cookies that are accepted by and stored on your system.

Cookie Pal works with the following web browsers and software:

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.x, 4.x and 5.x
  
• Netscape Navigator 3.x and 4.x
  
• Opera 4.x and 5.x
  
• Neoplanet
  
• CompuServe WinCIM 3.x and 4.x
  
• America Online 3.0, 4.0, 5.0 and 6.0 for Windows 95/98/ME
  
• Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express
  
• Eudora E-mail
  
• Windows Media Player and RealPlayer
  

à and can be customized by the user to work with other 32 bit internet software which uses cookies.

Cookie Pal includes the following features:

• Automatically and transparently accepts or rejects cookies from all or specified servers without user interaction.
  
• Cookies received from unspecified servers can be automatically accepted or rejected without user interaction, or the user can be asked for confirmation.
  
• Cookies can be accepted based on expiration date.
  
• "On the fly" adding of servers to the accept from and reject from lists, allows you to manually accept or reject a cookie the first time it is received and then have it automatically accepted or rejected every time it is received thereafter.
  
• Wildcards allow cookies to be accepted or rejected from a group of servers on the same domain.
  
• Keeps a list of the number of cookies accepted and rejected from each server for the current session, as well as a detailed list of cookies accepted and rejected for the current session.
  
• Allows all cookies already on the system to be viewed and deleted.
  
• Can load and shut down automatically with your web browser.
  
• Runs as an icon in the taskbar tray.
  
• Can be customized to work with other software which receives cookies and displays cookie alerts.
  
• Allows user selected sounds to be played when cookies are accepted and rejected, and when the confirmation window is displayed. Some sounds are included.
  
• Small application size, requires no extra runtime DLLs.
  
• Full 32 bit application, written in C++, uses minimal system resources.
  

Why use Cookie Pal?

Both Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer contain options to alert the user before a cookie is accepted. This causes the browser to pop up an alert every time a cookie is received and the user must respond to this alert before continuing. Some web pages can contain up to 20 or 30 cookies, meaning a lot of annoying confirmations for the user. Cookie Pal intercepts these alerts that would normally be displayed and responds to them on your behalf before they are even displayed on screen - your only clue that a cookie has been accepted or rejected will be a brief change in the task bar icon for Cookie Pal.