Feature Requests item #1871388, was opened at 2008-01-14 17:32
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Group: download
Status: Open
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Priority: 5
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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: Benjamin Kahn (xkahn)
Date: 2008-01-15 16:35

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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 17:48

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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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