Re: [http-state] Ticket 5: Cookie ordering

[Dan Winship <[e-mail]>]

On 01/20/2010 03:13 AM, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> Some of those non-web tools that deal with cookies know how to import
> cookies from the traditional cookies file in the netscape file format,
> and that format has no "creation time" field and thus importing cookies
> from such a file makes it impossible to send the cookies back sorted on
> the original "creation time" but instead it could only do it based on
> the time of the read from a file.

FTR, Netscape/Mozilla/Firefox always write the cookie file out in
creation-time-order, so while you can't recover the *exact* creation
time of each cookie, you can still sort by creation time. (Rather than
talking about "creation time", it probably makes more sense in this case
to think about "serial number", assigning the cookies in the cookies.txt
file numbers from 1 to N, and then assigning each cookie received after
that point the next number in sequence.)

(Yes, I'm sure there are non-mozilla-based tools that write out
cookies.txt files that *don't* do it in creation order.)

-- Dan