692315 - Capability to Protect Persistent Cookies from Being Modified by Servers

Status: NEW

(Core :: Networking: Cookies, enhancement, P5)

Description

[David E. Ross]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:7.0) Gecko/20110923 SeaMonkey/2.4

Provide a capability to protect individual persistent cookies that already exist in cookies.sqlite from being modified during subsequent sessions.  This should include a user interface to mark a cookie as protected and also to remove that state.  

User case (just one example):  
When I use Bugzilla to query the bugzilla.mozilla.org database, I have a preferred set of columns I want to see in the query report.  I also want the listed bugs sorted by bug number.  On occasion, however, I want to view different columns (e.g., replacing Changed, Severity, Status, Resolution, and Votes with Product and Component and then sorting first by Component and then by Product).  I do not want to have to manually restore my preferred view then next time I visit bugzilla.mozilla.org.  For now, I have marked cookies.sqlite as read-only; but that is really not satisfactory.  

Although this capability has been cited in bug #149544, the discussion there has evolved to address only the deletion of cookies, not deleting cookies marked as "protected".  Thus, this is not a duplicate of bug #149544.

Comment 1

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

Bulk change to priority: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1399258