Closed
Bug 6401
Opened 25 years ago
Closed 25 years ago
cookies file grows like crazy - forever
Categories
(Core :: Networking: Cookies, defect, P3)
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(Reporter: ramiro, Assigned: morse)
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Details
start with an empty cookie file: rm -f ~/.mozilla/cookies
goto www.yahoo.com, search for something
there now is one yahoo entry on the cookies file
exit the viewer and run it again
goto another site that adds a cookie, say www.dejanews.com
search for something, now look at the cookies file. the yahoo entry from above
is DUPLICATED right before the new dejanews entries.
exit the viewer and run it again
goto a third site, say excite.com and do a search.
look at the cookies file and notice how everything is duplicated again.
after a while, the cookies file grows to megabytes and makes everything about
the app unusable.
this bug doesnt seem to happen on windows. i bet you have a misplaced #ifdef
XP_PC somewhere.
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Updated•25 years ago
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Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 25 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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Comment 1•25 years ago
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This is a duplicate of 2414. Don't be fooled by the wording on 2414 which talks
about initial cookie file on mac -- read the report and see that it also covers
the growing cookie file on unix.
The code for all of this is inside of netlib (mkaccess.c). All that code
is being completely thrown out to be replaced by necko. For that reason 2414
was marked as "wont-fix"
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 2414 ***
Comment 2•25 years ago
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I will verify this as a dup although ramiro, I must admit I do not see this at
all on Unix. My cookies file stays small and friendly - when I write a new
cookie, it simply adds that one cookie to the file, there is no duplication.
I did see it about a month ago.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
did you quit restart the the app ?
where you using viewer or apprunner ?
Comment 4•25 years ago
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apprunner, and I've been using the same cookie file for awhile (confirmed by
checking time stamp that it's writing to the file). Strange.
ok, then this happens only in the viewer. thanks for confirming this.
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Comment 6•25 years ago
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Well that clarifies a lot of things. As discussed in report 2414, the problem
did exist in unix apprunner and was happening because all initializations (at a
higher level than cookies) were being done twice; this caused the cookies file
to be read in twice and therefore every cookie was duplicated. Hubie's analysis
and fix for that problem are described in 2414.
So I'm guessing that Hubie's fix applied only to apprunner and a similar fix
needs to be done for viewer. But are we really going to continue to maintain
both apprunner and viewer, or is viewer being deprecated?
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