browser cookies from Java
carljmosca
cookies? I think it goes w/o saying I am wanting to do this in a
platform independent manner. :)
I have seen a few code snippets which will let me find the OS and
default browser and I realize Java will now launch the browser given a
URL (very nice, I use this a good bit).
What I have not found (I just started looking) is a way to find a
given cookie value. I realize I may have to roll my own and there are
some good starting points but if someone already knows of a nice
library which will do this I would like to use it.
TIA,
Carl
Van Riper
> Does anyone know of a library which will let me examine a browser's
> cookies? I think it goes w/o saying I am wanting to do this in a
> platform independent manner. :)
At my company, we write a lot of spiders in Java. We are very happy
with Jakarta Commons HttpClient:
http://hc.apache.org/httpclient-3.x/
The support for retrieving browser cookies is well documented here:
http://hc.apache.org/httpclient-3.x/cookies.html
Although I have never looked at it myself, there is CookieDemoApp
checked into the code samples section of the project too:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpcomponents/oac.hc3x/trunk/src/examples/
Cheers, Van
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Marcelo Morales
On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 1:15 PM, carljmosca <carlj...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Does anyone know of a library which will let me examine a browser's
> cookies? I think it goes w/o saying I am wanting to do this in a
> platform independent manner. :)
It should NOT be possible to examine browser cookies from an applet.
It would be a serious security issue. There is no other
platform-independent relation with the browser AFAIK.
So, I believe you can only tap onto the filesystem and work on a per
os, per browser, per version, per profile fashion.
Quite a problem I say.
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carljmosca
Not that it matters to your point but I am writing an application, not
an applet.
Still I am aware of the security implications.
Thank you.
carljmosca
have to take a closer look. I am not sure it offers what I am after.
I want to examine the a browser's cookies from a Java application.
On Feb 6, 3:42 pm, Van Riper <van.ri...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Does anyone know of a library which will let me examine a browser's
> > cookies? I think it goes w/o saying I am wanting to do this in a
> > platform independent manner. :)
>
> At my company, we write a lot of spiders in Java. We are very happy
> with Jakarta Commons HttpClient:
>
> http://hc.apache.org/httpclient-3.x/
>
> The support for retrieving browser cookies is well documented here:
>
> http://hc.apache.org/httpclient-3.x/cookies.html
>
> Although I have never looked at it myself, there is CookieDemoApp
> checked into the code samples section of the project too:
>
> http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpcomponents/oac.hc3x/trunk/src/examples/
>
> Cheers, Van
>
> --
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Marcelo Morales
The Sqlite database contains only one table. The structure is:
moz_cookies (id INTEGER, name TEXT, value TEXT, host TEXT, path
TEXT,expiry INTEGER, lastAccessed INTEGER, isSecure INTEGER,
isHttpOnly INTEGER)
I don't think several processes can access the same database (I could
be wrong). So you will have to copy the database file and use
something like http://zentus.com/sqlitejdbc/ to access the data.
Webkit, IE, Chrome, older mozillas, etc. use different schemes. Is a
plug-in architecture called for?
Marcelo Morales
Steven Herod
writing from an sqlite db. Unless moz is doing some thing unusual
sqlite only locks on write operations and the lock handling approach
is to just keep trying until it works.
Best of luck.
On Feb 8, 10:28 am, Marcelo Morales <marcelomorales.n...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> The Sqlite database contains only one table. The structure is:
> moz_cookies (id INTEGER, name TEXT, value TEXT, host TEXT, path
> TEXT,expiry INTEGER, lastAccessed INTEGER, isSecure INTEGER,
> isHttpOnly INTEGER)
> I don't think several processes can access the same database (I could
> be wrong). So you will have to copy the database file and use
carljmosca
On Feb 7, 7:25 pm, Steven Herod <steven.he...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've used that library and simulated up to 40 clients reading and
> writing from an sqlite db. Unless moz is doing some thing unusual
> sqlite only locks on write operations and the lock handling approach
> is to just keep trying until it works.
>
> Best of luck.
>
> On Feb 8, 10:28 am, Marcelo Morales <marcelomorales.n...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Firefox 3 uses sqlite to store cookies. Earlier mozillas used text files.
> > The Sqlite database contains only one table. The structure is:
> > moz_cookies (id INTEGER, name TEXT, value TEXT, host TEXT, path
> > TEXT,expiry INTEGER, lastAccessed INTEGER, isSecure INTEGER,
> > isHttpOnly INTEGER)
> > I don't think several processes can access the same database (I could
> > be wrong). So you will have to copy the database file and use