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Impact of HTTP Cookie Violations in Web Archives

2019/06/17 by Sawood Alam, Alam, Sawood, Plinio Vargas +5
Computer Science · #Advanced Malware Detection Techniques #Digital Libraries (cs.DL) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Web Application Security Vulnerabilities #Web Data Mining and Analysis

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1906.07141

openalex publication_date 2019/06/17 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01

Abstract

Certain HTTP Cookies on certain sites can be a source of content bias in archival crawls. Accommodating Cookies at crawl time, but not utilizing them at replay time may cause cookie violations, resulting in defaced composite mementos that never existed on the live web. To address these issues, we propose that crawlers store Cookies with short expiration time and archival replay systems account for values in the Vary header along with URIs.

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