Hi xi,

When I contributed a patch of "[new feature] Maximum limitation of
cookies", the patch includes a feature of deleting expired cookie.
I think the new feature is not loaded.

See these mails and remove_expired() function.
http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2013-04/0381.html
http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2013-05/0010.html
http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2013-05/0048.html
http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2013-05/0074.html
http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2013-05/0075.html
http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2013-05/0122.html

Best regards,
thanks
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YAMADA Yasuharu
ACCESS CO., LTD.
Yasuharu.Yamada_at_access-company.com

2013/6/26 xi xi <geekxixi_at_gmail.com>

> I've been reading the cookie related codes in libcurl. And it seems that
> there are no libcurl APIs to delete expired cookies.
>
> CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE option just reads in those linked cookie files without
> checking expire time.
> CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR option writes out all cookies without checking expire
> time.
>
> It seems that expire time is checked only when libcurl selects outgoing
> cookies during the sending of a HTTP response.
>
> As mentioned above, all expired persistant cookies will be stored in the
> CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR file even there are useless and invalid. It seems that
> this file will get bigger and bigger. So will this become a problem?
>
>
> Thanks,
> With BR
> xixi
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