ActiveX control, firefox browser, and cookies..?

[Allen]

(pardon if this is a repost, first attempt went into 'moderator 
approval' and i haven't seen it, sent from wrong address)


I recently posted a similar message to the usenet group but so far, no 
reply, and I haven't seen any other traffic on the group so I figured 
I'd try email.


I've recently written a Win32 Delphi application (BDS 2006) that uses 
the MozillaBrowser ActiveX control to do some minor web stuff.  One of 
the things it does is visits a login page (in PHP) that can put a 
cookie on the machine, so if the user stops using the program and goes 
to the page in their browser they will remain logged in.


However it looks like embedded browser control and the full blown 
browser don't use the same cookie store.  Is that the case?  I can't 
seem to get cookies from one to be available to the other, in either 
direction.


Thanks for any insight.


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Re: ActiveX control, firefox browser, and cookies..?

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Allen wrote:

 However it looks like embedded browser control and the full blown
 browser don't use the same cookie store.  Is that the case?  I can't
 seem to get cookies from one to be available to the other, in either
 direction.

Yes, that is the case. Cookies are stored in the profile directory, which
can only be accessed by one process at a time. So it is basically impossible
to share cookies between firefox and embedded apps at this time, because you
run the serious risk of corrupting the cookie store altogether.

--BDS
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