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| 62 | The following <tt class="class">CookieJar</tt> subclasses are provided for reading |
| 63 | and writing . Further <tt class="class">CookieJar</tt> subclasses, including one |
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| 69 | <td><nobr><b><span class="typelabel">class</span> <tt id='l2h-3634' xml:id='l2h-3634' class="class">MozillaCookieJar</tt></b>(</nobr></td> |
| 70 | <td><var>filename, delayload=<tt class="constant">None</tt>, |
| 71 | policy=<tt class="constant">None</tt></var>)</td></tr></table></dt> |
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| 73 | A <tt class="class">FileCookieJar</tt> that can load from and save cookies to disk in |
| 74 | the Mozilla <code>cookies.txt</code> file format (which is also used by the |
| 75 | Lynx and Netscape browsers). <span class="note"><b class="label">Note:</b> |
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| 98 | A <tt class="class">FileCookieJar</tt> that can load from and save cookies to disk in |
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