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Re: [PATCH] Add parser for Netscape/Mozilla cookie file format
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: [PATCH] Add parser for Netscape/Mozilla cookie file format |
Date: |
Mon, 09 Oct 2017 13:55:27 +0300 |
> From: Aurélien Aptel <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2017 11:12:53 +0200
> Cc: Aurelien Aptel <address@hidden>, Emacs development discussions
> <address@hidden>
>
> On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 10:53 AM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Is this format still used nowadays? E.g., on my system the cookies
> > are stored in an SQLite db, not a text file.
>
> It's the closest thing we have to a standard I think. It's accepted by
> wget, curl, lynx, w3m, ... In fact it's the only format they know how
> to parse & generate IIUC.
> Also implemented by various programming language libs, including python [1].
>
> 1:
> https://docs.python.org/3.3/library/http.cookiejar.html?highlight=cookie#file-cookie-jar-classes
Thanks. If this is useful, I have no objections, but please push to
the master branch.