Re: [Bug-wget] Re: Pleease add support --load-cookies-sqllite in WGET !!!

[Anthony Bryan]

On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 5:16 PM, Micah Cowan <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Feature requests and general discussion should really go to the Wget
> mailing list at address@hidden (I've added it to the recipients).
>
>> My problem is no support option --load-cookies-sqllite and
>> --save-cookies-sqllite
>> in wget then download files
>>
>> with rapidshare.com(i am use for test
>> http://rapidshare.com/files/150659673/Hirens.BootCD.9.6.rar),
>>
>> because firefox 3.x.x not support cookies.txt(now support
>> cookies.sqllite - BIN file)!!!
>>
>>
>> No work!!!
>>
>>
>> Pleeeease add feature in new release wget 1.11.5!!!
>>
>> I am find patch with this feature, but no tested!
>>
>> http://wget.addictivecode.org/Wget?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=wget-firefox3-cookie.patch
>>
>> It is ready to act Beta as a tester!!!
>
> You're welcome to add that patch yourself, of course. We don't produce
> binary packages anyway.
>
> We are unlikely to add that feature for the official Wget releases (BTW,
> the next release will most likely be numbered 1.12). I'd much rather see
> a more general approach, where a separate program is used to convert
> between FF3's sqlite db file and a traditional cookies.txt program: such
> a solution would then be usable by any other program that needs to work
> on cookies files.

hi Victor, if you don't mind trying another app instead of wget, check
out aria2.

it's a command line downloader that supports Firefox 3 (sqlite) cookies.

http://aria2.sourceforge.net/#features

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