Re: [Gnash-dev] youtube cookies

[strk]

On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 09:02:07AM +0200, strk wrote:
> On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 03:43:28PM -0600, Rob Savoye wrote:
> 
> >   I noticed something today while tracking down a different bug. When the
> > XPCOM support was removed a little while back (about the time cookies 
> > became a
> > problem) a bunch of code for handling cookies was also removed. I'm not sure
> > if this is the cause, but it seemed an intersting coincidence worth checking
> > out...
> 
> Indeed I see that the curl adapter side still has cookie support
> so maybe yes, the plugin side just broke.
> You should be looking for an export of GNASH_COOKIES_IN env
> variable. The curl adapter, when that variable is present,
> will read the name of a file from there and use to send already-known
> cookies. Similarly an GNASH_COOKIES_OUT env variable will make
> the curl adapter write what it has (to include new cookies) on exit.

Digging commit history I see the code was introduced in 0.8.4 (see 
ChangeLog-0.8.4).
It is not advertised in the NEWS file so maybe wasn't complete yet.
I remember I worked on the curl adaptar side while 'asac' did the plugin part
(using xpcom).

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