I recently stumbled across the concept of flash cookies, or Local Shared Objects used by Adobe Flash Player. From what I have read, this concept seems to be poorly known and understood by the majority of intarweb citizens (which, until recently, included myself). These flash cookies have some rather concerning properties with regards to privacy. Using the .sol Editor (Win32 only, but worked nicely on Linux using Wine, I found that I had literally hundreds of flash cookies, some of which contained personal information, including username and passwords in clear text.

Now as a concient web surfer I use a browser with a number of extensions, namely NoScript and more recently Objection. NoScript will block flash altogether, but will happily allow flash cookies for whitelisted web sites. Objection allows deletion the flash cookies, without the possibility for inspecting the actual flash cookie content.

Now this is Perlmonks, not JavaScript-Monks, and I want to be able to inspect (e.g. parse) those flash cookies so generously donated by advertisers and publishers, using Perl. There are some open-source tools which offers this, although none in Perl.

Do the honorable Monks have any knowledge of a Flash cookie (SOL file) parser efforts in Perl?