446068 - 3-rd party applications have no unified way of accessing Firefox cookies

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Karen Gabrielyan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1

This is an improvement request rather than a bug.

Firefox does not provide any mechanism for 3-rd party applications residing on the same PC as Firefox for accessing the cookies stored by latter.

Such a mechanism can be valuable to many applications trying to streamline their deployment flow from a web-page.

It is possible to access Internet Explorer cookies through WinAPI on contrary, making the latter.

If there existed applications that manually parsed the cookies.txt cookie store of the Firefox 2.0 and earlier, than all these applications got broken due to inability to parse the cookies.sqlite of FF 3. A unified mechanism for cookie access would allow for applications being forward-compatible with future versions of Firefox.

Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

cookies.sqlite is just a sqlite database but I
'm not sure that you can open the database if Firefox is running.

Comment 2

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

This is a mass search for bugs that are in the Firefox General component, are
UNCO, and have not been changed for 800 days and have an unspecified version. 

Reporter, can you please update to Firefox 3.6.10, create a fresh profile,
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/managing+profiles, and test again. If you
still see the bug, please update this bug. If the issue is gone, please set the
resolution to RESOLVED > WORKSFORME.

Comment 3

[Gregory Pappas [:gregp]]

3rd party applications have no unified way of accessing Firefox cookies

Good