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I am unable to login to certain websites (such as stackoverflow) because the login URL is getting blocked (not the whole website) via a firewall.

Is it possible to copy the cookie file from a computer that is already logged into stackoverflow to this firewalled computer to trick the website that it is already authenticated and logged in.

Can this be done? If so, how?

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Questions about the way the StackOverflow sites are working should be on meta.stackoverflow.com . Voting to migrate it there. – Gnoupi Jan 18 '10 at 10:03
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Gnoupi, I see your point, but the process could apply to any site, hence valid for SU? Mind, I don't have an answer! – outsideblasts Jan 18 '10 at 10:19
@Gnoupi, although this question refers to stackoverflow, it is actually about moving cookies from computer-to-computer, which is completely independent of SOFU – David Pearce Jan 18 '10 at 10:57
I tend to agree with outsideblasts, though I would like Deostroll to make the question a little more readable... – Ivo Flipse♦ Jan 18 '10 at 10:58
@joshhunt and @outsideblasts - Sorry, I thought that it was depending on the site, so that it wouldn't apply to other sites. My knowledge in this matter is very thin ;-) – Gnoupi Jan 18 '10 at 12:01

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Firefox cookies are stored in the files cookies.sqlite and cookies.sqlite-journal in the folder 

%APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<profile>

where %APPDATA% is an environment variable that holds the path of the user's application data folder (which varies between Windows versions and languages), and <profile> is the name of the profile, which has a "random" component and ends with the profile name; if you don't have multiple Firefox profiles, there should be only one directory.

However, this means you cannot copy individual cookies, only the entire cookie database; and I am not 100% sure that simply copying the files will work.

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