A patch has been attached to http://wget.addictivecode.org/FrontPage, and
I've added a link to it at the bottom of the page.
My work is based on the latest 1.11.4 version. Now use --load-cookies-sqlite
and --save-cookies-sqlite to load/save cookies in Firefox 3.x format.
I've also updated doc/wget.texi and po/wget.pot.
Please note this patch is still preliminary. Some of the major problems are:
1. I'm not familiar with the configure system, so now I just added a
-lsqlite3 into src/Makefile.in, surely it should be replaced by some more
sophisticated solution.
2. The SQLite API requires the filenames to be encoded in UTF-8, regardless
of the locale used. The necessary charset conversion is not done currently.
3. While I was testing my code, I encountered some cookie expiry values from
my Firefox 3.x cookie database that are too large to fit into time_t.
Currently, I use a dirty hack so that any expiry value too large to fit into
time_t will be replaced by the "largest possible" time_t value, assuming
that time_t is some sort of a signed integral type.
4. apparently, the firefox 3.x cookie file does not have a domain_exact
field as in a firefox 2.x cookie file. But this fields is present in the
cookie struct. So I assume that if the domain name begins with a dot '.',
then it's not exact; otherwise it is exact.
5. the firefox 3.x cookie file contains a isHttpOnly field, which I don't
know how to generate from cookie struct fields.
best regards!
2008/7/29 Micah Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> 宋浩 wrote:
> > Hi, folks:
> > I'm currently using Firefox 3.0 on my Ubuntu 8.04 system. The browser
> > saves its cookie file in the same directory as its predecessor Firefox
> > 2.x, but in a SQLite database file called cookies.sqlite instead of a
> > textual file. And I want to add support for this new cookie file format
> > into wget. The coding is almost done.
> > I'd like to know if anyone else is also working on this.
>
> To be honest, I'd prefer to avoid a dependency on sqlite in Wget, even a
> configurable one. I'd much prefer to see a solution based on a separate
> program that converts from cookies.sqlite to a cookies.txt file.
> Besides, that solution would work with more tools than Wget ("do one
> thing, and do it well"¹).
>
> ¹ Not that Wget adheres particularly well to that philosophy...
>
> Lest you think I'm just being unfeeling to your needs, I should point
> out that I'm also running on an Ubuntu 8.04, and have found the
> sqlite-based cookies files a supreme annoyance. I'd just prefer a more
> general, scriptable solution.
>
> However, if you choose to complete this work (you said you're nearly
> done), I won't mind if you place a link to your patch on the Wiki front
> page (http://wget.addictivecode.org/FrontPage).
>
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> Micah J. Cowan
> Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer.
> GNU Maintainer: wget, screen, teseq
> http://micah.cowan.name/
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宋浩
Song, Hao
Institute for Theoretical Computer Science
Tsinghua University, Beijing, P.R.China
