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Re: Cookie storage customization?
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From: Isaac Jurado via curl-library <curl-library_at_lists.haxx.se>
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2021 20:45:11 +0200
On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 11:44 AM Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se> wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Sep 2021, Isaac Jurado via curl-library wrote:
>
> I was curious why optimizing the storage is so important when most of the
> cookie handling should be done without storing them on disk at all...
>
> ...
> The cookie jar (the external file) is only populated by libcurl when you
> close
> the easy handle. Mostly you re-use the handles with the cookies in memory.
>
> > To give more context, I have been prototyping an utility to perform
> > authenticated service calls over HTTP. Authentication is OAuth based,
> but I
> > want to maximize session cookie reuse. Therefore, an SQLite based
> cookie
> > store fits very well even in a multiprocess environment (not only
> > multithread) thanks to the ACID transactions.
>
> Isn't using a share handle for cookies the better solution for this?
>
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Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2021 20:45:11 +0200
On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 11:44 AM Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se> wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Sep 2021, Isaac Jurado via curl-library wrote:
>
> I was curious why optimizing the storage is so important when most of the
> cookie handling should be done without storing them on disk at all...
>
> ...
> The cookie jar (the external file) is only populated by libcurl when you
> close
> the easy handle. Mostly you re-use the handles with the cookies in memory.
>
> > To give more context, I have been prototyping an utility to perform
> > authenticated service calls over HTTP. Authentication is OAuth based,
> but I
> > want to maximize session cookie reuse. Therefore, an SQLite based
> cookie
> > store fits very well even in a multiprocess environment (not only
> > multithread) thanks to the ACID transactions.
>
> Isn't using a share handle for cookies the better solution for this?
>
> --
>
> / daniel.haxx.se
> | Commercial curl support up to 24x7 is available!
> | Private help, bug fixes, support, ports, new features
> | https://curl.se/support.html
>
-- Isaac Jurado "The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding" Leonardo da Vinci
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