269084 - Allow manual editing/additions to "Edit Site Permissions" (exceptions list) cookie allow/deny list

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Camino Graveyard :: General, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20041106 Camino/0.8+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20041106 Camino/0.8+

It would be nice to manually add "whitelisted" or "blacklisted" sites to
Camino's cookie site permissions list.  Since a number of sites run a series of
servers for their ads/cookies (a.evil-ad-cookie.com, b.evil-ad-cookie.com,
etc.), it would also be nice to be able to input, or edit an existing cookie to,
the global domain, quickly WL/BL them all (I've loaded several pages since
turning on this feature wherein I would have to accept/deny a series of cookies
from 3-4 different subdomains of the same ad/cookie site...).

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click on "Edit Site Permissions" button in "Privacy" pane of Camino prefs
2. Attempt to edit "a.badcookiesite.com" to ".badcookiesite.com" or to add
"evil.cookie.com" to the list

Actual Results:  
One is only able to toggle "Allow/Deny" for "a.badcookiesite.com"

Expected Results:  
Allow editing of "a.badcookiesite.com" to ".badcookiesite.com" and allow adding
of "evil.cookiesite.com" to the list.

Comment 1

[Bruce Davidson]

No obvious dupes of this so confirming it as a valid enhancement request.

For my 2 pence worth I can see the point behind the request, but I'm not sure
its actually a viable end-user feature. Mike might want to "won't fix" it for
that reason.

Comment 2

[camino]

(In reply to comment #1)
I'm seconding the request, as this feature is the only thing keeping me on
Firefox when I'd much rather be using Camino. The way Firefox allows you to deny
all cookies but then have a user-defined exception list is exactly how I'd like
Camino to work. It's a viable enough end-user feature for Firefox - why not Camino?

> No obvious dupes of this so confirming it as a valid enhancement request.
> 
> For my 2 pence worth I can see the point behind the request, but I'm not sure
> its actually a viable end-user feature. Mike might want to "won't fix" it for
> that reason.

Comment 3

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

(In reply to comment #2)
> The way Firefox allows you to deny
> all cookies but then have a user-defined exception list is exactly how I'd like
> Camino to work. 

You should be able to "fake" this by choosing "Deny all cookies" in the Camino
prefs and then adding the line
host	cookie	1	site.domain.com
for each site you want to allow to the hostperm.1 file in your profile
(~/Library/Application Support/Camino).  No built-in editing and requires a
restart to take effect, but might be a solution for some people now.

Comment 4

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

Attachment: Hacky patch

This patch (with the nib) adds a context menu on the cookies table that looks like:

Remove
------------
Block cookies from this site

and the last item calls into the code in the patch.

It's hacky because
a) it's undiscoverable
b) it assumes that the protocol is http (is it every otherwise? https?).

Comment 5

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

Attachment: Screenshot

Here's what I have. The menu is also available as the context menu on the table view. The items strings change depending on what you have selected.

Comment 6

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

What happens if you have several cookies selected?  Does the menu populate with two entries for each unique host?  E.g., if you had two .ads.pointroll.com cookies, one .a.macworld.com, and one advertising.com cookie selected, would there be six items in the menu (plus Remove and Remove All…)?

Comment 7

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

No, in that case the menu has:

Remove
---------------
Block cookies from these sites
Remove and block cookies from these sites
---------------
Remove All

Comment 8

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

Fixed (with a more sophisiticated patch).