[issue2007] cookielib lacks FileCookieJar class for Internet Explorer

Inada Naoki added the comment: I don't think adding MSIE support is not worth enough for now. -- nosy: +inada.naoki resolution: -> out of date stage: needs patch -> resolved status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker

[issue2007] cookielib lacks FileCookieJar class for Internet Explorer

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[issue2007] cookielib lacks FileCookieJar class for Internet Explorer

Senthil Kumaran added the comment: I removed the documentation comment in r82785. But the report still holds till we have a class for handling MSIE Cookies. -- nosy: +orsenthil stage: -> needs patch ___ Python tracker

[issue2007] cookielib lacks FileCookieJar class for Internet Explorer

John J Lee added the comment: Suggest removing the comment that Terry refers to. That referenced MSIE code doesn't have an automated test, I've no idea whether it still works on modern Windows OSes, mechanize no longer supports use with urllib2, and I don't think that link is really appropri

[issue2007] cookielib lacks FileCookieJar class for Internet Explorer

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Removed file was a dup of msg62113 Jansen 2008-02-06 13:34 FileCookieJars are now in http.cookiejar. Doc says "The following CookieJar subclasses are provided for reading and writing . Further CookieJar subclasses, including one that reads Microsoft Internet

[issue2007] cookielib lacks FileCookieJar class for Internet Explorer

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[issue2007] cookielib lacks FileCookieJar class for Internet Explorer

John J Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: Forgot to add: if somebody else does the work, I'm happy to agree to the code being used in Python stdlib. Perhaps it would be necessary to get the author of the original Perl code from which this MSIE class is derived to sign a contributor agree

[issue2007] cookielib lacks FileCookieJar class for Internet Explorer

John J Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: Note that the code on wwwsearch.sf.net only reads cookies, and does not write them. Also, the approach used is fragile to changes to MS's "index.dat" database, which was the reason why that code was not included when cookielib was added. As far

[issue2007] cookielib lacks FileCookieJar class for Internet Explorer

Bill Janssen added the comment: Yes, I saw that, but it doesn't really help. Batteries not included. It suggests an approach to addressing this problem, though: see if the author will contribute the code under an appropriate licence. I intend to write an instance of FileCookieJar for Safari.

[issue2007] cookielib lacks FileCookieJar class for Internet Explorer

Christian Heimes added the comment: >From the doc string: note that BSDDBCookieJar and the MSIE* classes are not distributed with the Python standard library, but are available from http://wwwsearch.sf.net/ -- nosy: +tiran priority: -> normal __ Tracker

[issue2007] cookielib lacks FileCookieJar class for Internet Explorer

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[issue2007] cookielib lacks FileCookieJar class for Internet Explorer

New submission from Bill Janssen: cookielib contains an implementation of FileCookieJar for Mozilla Firefox, which will work with most of the various Mozilla browsers, but no implementation for Internet Explorer, standard on Windows and used by some 80% of computer users. -- components: