20683 - RFE: Database interface for storing/accessing cookies...

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 17048

(Core :: Networking: Cookies, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Roland Mainz]

As the summary says: An interface for storing/acessing cookies in databases.

Comment 1

[Stephen P. Morse]

I'm afraid I don't understand what is being requested here.  If you are asking
for a user interface to access the cookies collected in your browser, then it
already exists.  Go to the cookie viewer which is accessible from the menu item
edit/wallet/display-cookies.

If you are asking for a facility to access cookies in some arbitrary database
outside of the browser, then this is not something that belongs in the browser
but should be a separate stand-alone tool.

If you are asking for the ability to create (not just access) cookies, then this
is of very limited use to nearly all users.  What would you do with such a
cookie?

Unless you can give concrete examples of what it is that you are asking for and
why it would be useful, I have to close this request out as invalid.  If you
have such examples and justification, then feel free to include it here and
reopen the bug report.

Comment 2

[Roland Mainz]

My idea was to store the cookies in a name service (like LDAP etc.) that
multiple browser sessions on different hosts can share cookies and other profile
data instead of getting them from prefs.js

Comment 3

[Stephen P. Morse]

OK, now I understand what you are asking for.  Of course you meant to say
"cookies.txt" rather than "prefs.js" but I understood what you meant.

Comment 4

[Stephen P. Morse]

This enhancement is not going to get done unless somebody on the web volunteers
to do it.

Comment 5

[leger]

Putting helpwanted in the keyword field.

Comment 6

[leger]

Assigning all open "[e-mail]" bugs to "[e-mail]" to weed 
thru.

Comment 7

[leger]

Moving back to [e-mail].  This is where the helpwanted will be 
assigned until someone picks them up.

Comment 8

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

Netscape nav triage team: based on Steve Morse's pre-triage recommendation, this 
is not a beta stopper.

Comment 9

[Stefan Seifert]

I think this is a dup of bug 17048 the all known profile roaming. Both ask for
profile data stored on a centralized server.

Comment 10

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

Agreed on it being a dup. Roland, if you disagree, please reopen this.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 17048 ***

Comment 11

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

intend seems to be covered by roaming bugs, yes