Re: master 956f21b: Make xwidget-webkit default to not storing cookies

[Stefan Kangas]

Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> writes:

> WebKit (not only the GTK port, but other ports, such as WKWebView on
> macOS as well) doesn't expose an API to disable cookies, or provide a
> default place to store cookies.  The application is always expected to
> determine the location itself.  (It defaults to being disabled, but once
> the location is set in a given WebKitWebView, you can't turn it off
> again.)

Wouldn't it just be a matter of documenting that disabling
`xwidget-cookies-enable' only takes effect in newly created webkit
widget (or whatever the terminology is), and that if users need to
disable them they need to somehow restart previously started widgets?

> However, we could make custom.el suggest suitable file locations for
> this type of option.  I'm not exactly sure how this would work, but it
> ought to be possible.

That would also be nice, I think.