Issue 535: Support cookies on file://
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=535

Comment #8 by paul.s.downey:
There's an emergent class of applications, which includes TiddlyWiki,  
Desktop widgets and HTML Applications (HTAs)  for which
storing cookies for a file URI is extremely useful for maintaining context,  
such as the wiki author and preferences, across
browser sessions.

Whilst I'm impressed the development team are cautions in opening  
up "undocumented" features which have a security impact,
Chrome is currently the only major browser not supporting cookies for file  
URIs, rendering it unusable for a number of existing,
often innovative, web applications. This is a shame, because it looks very  
promising, and would otherwise be a browser I'd
advocate people to switch to.

Restricting the scope of a stored cookies to the single file URI which  
created them, is perfectly acceptable for the TiddlyWiki
usecase, and a simply implemented rule.

In addition, most browsers issue a challenge when opening a file URI for  
the first time, warning the user using language similar
to downloading an application.



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