[swift-corelibs-dev] Implementing HTTPCookieStorage

[Kenny Leung]

I’m for locating it in the same place on all platforms. In general, I’m tired of digging around in different places for stuff depending on which flavor I’m using.

-Kenny


> On Nov 7, 2016, at 2:45 PM, Tony Parker via swift-corelibs-dev <swift-corelibs-dev at swift.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi Pushkar,
> 
> Good question. If this were Darwin I guess I would say ~/Library/Application Support — but I don’t know what the best practices are on other platforms. Does anyone out there have some suggestions?
> 
> - Tony
> 
>> On Nov 7, 2016, at 11:09 AM, Pushkar N Kulkarni via swift-corelibs-dev <swift-corelibs-dev at swift.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi there, 
>> 
>> I have spent some time working on a basic implementation of HTTPCookieStorage. In the process, I came across two crucial questions related to cookie persistence:
>> 1. How do you persist the cookies?
>> 2. Where do you persist them?
>> 
>> In my current implementation (https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-foundation/pull/672), I write them to a hidden plist file located in the user's home directory. Would that be an acceptable approach?
>> 
>> Is there anything more to consider while thinking of persistence? I'd greatly appreciate suggestions/comments. 
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> Pushkar N Kulkarni,
>> IBM Runtimes
>> 
>> Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability - Edsger W. Dijkstra
>> 
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