On Jul 8, 11:59 pm, "Karen Gabrielyan"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I would appreciate a help with this question.
>
> The Windows application I am working on needs to read Firefox cookies. The
> application is a desktop app, that has access to the user files.
>
> Up until the Firefox version 2.0 our application was parsing the cookies.txt
> to read the cookies. We however realized that this might change one day.
> Which did with Firefox 3 - cookies.sqlite is the new cookie file.
>
> I am wondering if there is a way to access Firefox cookies without having to
> deal with cookie file directly. Is there any XPCOM/Gecko-runtime-based
> solution to this?
>
> The idea is to change the application once and forever to be able to access
> Firefox cookies in a Firefox-version-independent way.
>
> I will resort to the Sqlite database reader if there are no option, but if
> anyone knows a universal cookie access mechanism, please let me know.
>
> Thanks in advance!
> Karen Gabrielyan

What about nsICookieManager2 and nsICookieService?

You can also register an observer for "cookie-changed" and "cookie-
rejected" event fired by  "@mozilla.org/observer-service;1" to watch
modifications.

Honza
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