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Re: [PATCH] Add parser for Netscape/Mozilla cookie file format
From: |
Aurélien Aptel |
Subject: |
Re: [PATCH] Add parser for Netscape/Mozilla cookie file format |
Date: |
Mon, 9 Oct 2017 11:12:53 +0200 |
On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 10:53 AM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
> Is this format still used nowadays? E.g., on my system the cookies
> are stored in an SQLite db, not a text file.
It's the closest thing we have to a standard I think. It's accepted by
wget, curl, lynx, w3m, ... In fact it's the only format they know how
to parse & generate IIUC.
Also implemented by various programming language libs, including python [1].
1:
https://docs.python.org/3.3/library/http.cookiejar.html?highlight=cookie#file-cookie-jar-classes