Feature Requests item #1871388, was opened at 2008-01-14 18:32
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Submitted By: Benjamin Kahn (xkahn)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: support FF3 sqlite cookie files

Initial Comment:
The -c/--cookie-jar option supports the Netscape cookie file format. Firefox 3 is moving from this format to a sqlite database instead.

I would like to see curl extended to support this new format as well.

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Comment By: Daniel Stenberg (bagder)
Date: 2008-02-17 21:20

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I found this tiny python script by Kees Cook that does the work:

http://launchpadlibrarian.net/12045790/cookies-sql2txt

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Comment By: Daniel Stenberg (bagder)
Date: 2008-01-16 00:29

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I think as a first start, someone should write a stand-alone tool that
does nothing but converts a firefox3 cookie-database to and from a firefox2
cookies.txt file.

dlopen is not a good way to solve these issues. We did that for LDAP for a
long time and we suffered and we only recently finally got rid of it, so
there's just no way I'm going back to dlopening anything at all. We either
#1 - import/write the necessary code for this in the curl project, #2 - we
rely on the sqlite lib(s) or #3 - we don't suppore ff3 cookies natively at
all.

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Comment By: Benjamin Kahn (xkahn)
Date: 2008-01-15 17:35

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I'm not sure where the functionality should be: curl or libcurl -- this
format SHOULD become more popular as time goes on.

There seem to be several ways to implement this: sqlite has a command
line interface which could be used to keep from needing a compile time
dependency. The library (which seems to be almost 500k) could be dlopen'd
at run time.

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Comment By: Daniel Stenberg (bagder)
Date: 2008-01-14 18:48

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I agree that it would be nice, but:

#1 - someone has to do it

#2 - I don't want sqlite added as a dependency for libcurl so I think this
parsing is better done by curl and not libcurl

#3 - Adding a dependency on sqlite to curl just for the ability to read
these files feels like a high price to pay, but...

I've now added a mentioned about this in the TODO file!

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Received on 2008-12-26