HTTP::Cookies::Microsoft(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation HTTP::Cookies::Microsoft(3)

# [SYNOPSIS](#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](#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](#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](#CAVEATS)

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

# [AUTHOR](#AUTHOR)

Johnny Lee <typo\_pl@hotmail.com>

# [COPYRIGHT](#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.

2026-10-26 perl v5.44.0

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Document: HTTP::Cookies::Microsoft(3pm) from perl-http-cookies 6.12-r2 (Chainguard OS)
Source: https://github.com/libwww-perl/HTTP-Cookies