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thewh1teagle / rookie

Load cookies from your web browsers
https://crates.io/crates/rookie
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[Feature Request]: Add support for browsers lynx and w3m #42

Closed mahlzahn closed 3 weeks ago

mahlzahn commented 4 months ago

Describe the feature

These are two text-based browsers from 1992 and 1995, which are both still maintained and which run on Linux. Their cookie files are just simple tab-separated text files (but with different specification).

I already implemented this feature for linux in the browser_cookie3 package (although not merged, yet), but this is in python and would need to be translated to proper rust code: https://github.com/borisbabic/browser_cookie3/pull/184. See the proposed changes, there!

The lynx cookie file looks like Netscape cookie file but it isn’t. Thus, e.g., the python implementation of http.cookiejar.MozillaCookieJar fails on the cookie file. Lynx runs also on Windows, MacOS, BSD, etc.

W3m’s cookie file implementation is here: https://github.com/tats/w3m/blob/master/cookie.c#L472 with the flags defined here: https://github.com/tats/w3m/blob/master/fm.h#L754.

thewh1teagle commented 4 months ago

Sounds like very good enhancment for rookie!

I already implemented this feature for linux in the browser_cookie3 package (although not merged, yet), but this is in python and would need to be translated to proper rust code: borisbabic/browser_cookie3#184. See the proposed changes, there!

Did you tested that PR on both browsers? If so, we can replicate it in Rust into rookie

thewh1teagle commented 3 weeks ago

These browsers rarely used. I tried to use lynx. it doesn't even store cookies by default :) I'll close the issue, if someone Really needs to support that feel free to comment here.