Hello, I don’t think we want to have clients of WebKit2 manage cookies themselves - that’s something the networking stack should do.
- Anders > On Apr 17, 2016, at 5:57 AM, Drew DeVault <s...@cmpwn.com> wrote: > > I'm looking into making a few patches that make the cookie manager more > flexible, and I'm stopping by the ML to see if anyone has > concerns/advice about this first. I'm using WebKitGTK, and in webkit1, > it was possible to have the UA manage the cookie store for more subtle > behaviors that aren't in the scope of webkit. In webkit2, the cookie > manager was introduced and is much less flexible with respect to cookie > policies and manipulating the cookie store. There's also issues with > sharing cookies between processes in a multiprocess browser. > > I have a two ideas around strategies to improve this: > > 1. Make WebKitCookieManager subclassable and have the UA provide their > own implementation if they need more flexibility. > 2. Add sufficient signals and APIs to WebKitCookieManager to allow the > UA to effectively manage cookies themselves. > > I'm leaning towards the second option. Would like to hear your thoughts. > > -- > Drew DeVault > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org > https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev
