183672 - rfe: block cookies according to cookie name as well as site domain

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: Networking: Cookies, enhancement)

Description

[Jonathan Amir]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130

The cookie manager is EXCELLENT :) but I have a suggestion for improvement:
There are many sites out there that try to send multiple cookies back to the
browser.  In most of the cases, I only want to allow the session cookie and
avoid the other cookies (those are usually profile/ad-aware cookies).
Currently, mozilla only allows me to block cookies according to the domain of
the server, and I feel that this is not enough for me.  I want to block cookies
based on the combination of domain + cookie name.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. visit www.nyrimes.com
2. click on the "Editorials/Op-Ed" link on the left
3. click on any article
4. you are prompted to provide a username and password to login.  After login
the server tries to send 4 cookies.

Actual Results:  
After login the server tries to send 4 cookies.

Expected Results:  
I would like to block some of those cookies.

I realize that this may be an over-kill for novice users.  Maybe the gui should
have an option to customize how the cookie manager interact with the user, so
for novice users the current configuration can be used.

Comment 1

[Michiel van Leeuwen (email: mvl+moz@)]

*** Bug 187367 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[werner]

Also it would be fine, to block Cookies by parts of the hostname. For Example,
many sites are using Services from ivwbox (Banners, Counting). They are all
setting a cookie e.g.: welt.ivwbox.de, sueddeut.ivwbox.de, zdf.ivwbox.de or
zdnet.ivwbox.de .
I want to block all cookies from *.ivwbox.de

Maybe it's possible to have editable textfields in cookiemanager/stored cookies.
And a button "block cookies like this". 

For testing purposes it would also be nice to edit existing cookies -> same
textfields, button "change cookie".

Comment 3

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

this is something that could be implemented as an extension, and really is
beyond what the core cookies engine should support.  I also doubt how useful
this would be to the vast majority of users (even within the subsection that
pays attention to cookies).