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Re: Feature to dynamically disable PSL dataset from filesystem
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From: Demi Marie Obenour <demiobenour_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2026 01:05:37 -0400
On 8/9/26 11:56, Daniel Stenberg via curl-library wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Aug 2026, Александр via curl-library wrote:
>
>> Maybe it's good idea to allow user to specify psl check strategy at
>> runtime? Like disable datasets from filesystem and use psl's
>> builtin/embedded one? And even to disable psl at all without rebuild?
>
> To me that seems like a subtle way to weaken your cookies in a way that users
> will have a hard time to understand and it will be hard to notice when or if
> it happens down the line.
>
> Would it perhaps be better to work on making the load/refresh happen at a
> different moment in time than exactly when parsing the cookie?
I think it would be best to allow the application to do the I/O, unless
one wants to put io_uring and FreeBSD AIO into libpsl.
Received on 2026-08-22
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2026 01:05:37 -0400
On 8/9/26 11:56, Daniel Stenberg via curl-library wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Aug 2026, Александр via curl-library wrote:
>
>> Maybe it's good idea to allow user to specify psl check strategy at
>> runtime? Like disable datasets from filesystem and use psl's
>> builtin/embedded one? And even to disable psl at all without rebuild?
>
> To me that seems like a subtle way to weaken your cookies in a way that users
> will have a hard time to understand and it will be hard to notice when or if
> it happens down the line.
>
> Would it perhaps be better to work on making the load/refresh happen at a
> different moment in time than exactly when parsing the cookie?
I think it would be best to allow the application to do the I/O, unless
one wants to put io_uring and FreeBSD AIO into libpsl.
-- Sincerely, Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers)
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