398441 - provide tutorial/how-to documentation for cookies

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Developer Documentation Graveyard :: Mozilla Platform, defect)

Description

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per https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=178993#c142 and https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=178993#c143, we should have some docs on how the mozilla impl of cookies works, the various attributes, how we differ from rfc2109 etc. i can probably write up most of the guts of this, but i don't have time to fully proof it or provide examples (if required) etc. will need some help here.

Comment 1

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

That's fine -- if you can write something up, I'll fluff it out.

Comment 2

[James Justin Harrell]

Would it be beneficial to mention getters and setters?
HTMLDocument.prototype.__defineGetter__( "cookie", function(){return "";} );
HTMLDocument.prototype.__defineSetter__( "cookie", function(){} );

Comment 3

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

We now have documentation of the various interfaces associated with cookies, but could use some more friendly how-to type documentation for cookies.  It would be nice if someone would write something up.

Comment 4

[Jean-Yves Perrier [:teoli]]

C3 says it is done