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Re: curl cookie jar

From: <curl_at_thewrittenword.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 07:14:32 -0500

On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 02:00:51PM +0200, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> Now, previously when we discussed this matter we talked about a few issues
> regarding all this, and now I need to re-ventilate them and make descisions
> based on your responses:
>
> 1. File locking. It was said we need file locking to have several invoked
> curls all write to the same destination file. I have serious doubts
> around this. Not only do I suspect that people will still make mistakes
> when using a single output file, but we'll also get problems with systems
> that don't do proper locking (like various OSes or just systems running
> on NFS or similar).

Look at how procmail does locking.

> 2. Cookie filtering. Are we gonna support that somehow? How would one want
> to filter cookies? On sending and/or receving cookies?

I'm sure you've heard of pavuk. I think it does cookies. Maybe how it
works can be of some help to you.

-- 
albert chin (china_at_thewrittenword.com)
Received on 2001-08-28