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    <p>I'm using Code::Blocks with MinGW, under Windows 7. I'm writing a multithreaded web crawler with libcurl, using a <a href="http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/curl_share_setopt.html" rel="nofollow">CURLSH</a> object with CURL_LOCK_DATA_COOKIE enabled to share cookies among different threads. Once a handle receives a cookie, it is successfully shared among every other handle. However, I need to copy the initial set of cookies from Firefox or Chrome. I found that they store cookies using sqlite, and I've been able to read cookies from both of them from within my program. The problem is, how do I give these cookies to libcurl? Ideally, there should be some way to feed these cookies to my CURLSH object, so that they get distributed to every handle. I have found no such thing.</p> <p>Following <a href="http://www.cookiecentral.com/faq/#3.5" rel="nofollow">this document</a>, I can try to save the cookies I read from my browser to a <em>cookies.txt</em> file, which reduces to finding a correspondence between the fields in the database used by Firefox/Chrome and the Netscape format. Netscape uses the following format:</p> <blockquote> <p>domain flag path secure expiration name value</p> </blockquote> <p>The problem comes with the flag field. I don't know what to write there. Firefox uses the following fields (file <em>cookies.sqlite</em>, table *moz_cookies*), which correspond with the Netscape format as follows (is this correct?):</p> <blockquote> <p>host ??? path isSecure expiry name value</p> </blockquote> <p>Chrome uses the following fields (file <em>Cookies</em>, table <em>cookies</em>):</p> <blockquote> <p>host_key ??? path secure expires_utc name value</p> </blockquote> <p>So, to create this <em>cookies.txt</em> file, I'm only missing that flag field. The document linked above says:</p> <blockquote> <p>flag - A TRUE/FALSE value indicating if all machines within a given domain can access the variable. This value is set automatically by the browser, depending on the value you set for domain.</p> </blockquote> <p>Which doesn't really tell me what to write there. However, writting a file and then reading it seems like unnecessary work, given that I'll first load the cookies from Firefox/Chrome in RAM, and I should be able to give them to libcurl directly without going through the hard drive. I've found the <a href="http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/curl_easy_setopt.html#CURLOPTCOOKIE" rel="nofollow">CURLOPT_COOKIE</a> option, but it is missing some fields (namely, domain). Also, that option doesn't seem to save the cookies for posterior use. It looks like I would need to call it for every transaction with only the cookies of the corresponding domain (and what if these cookies get changed? I would not want to check for changes manually, given that libcurl can do that).</p> <p>So, given that I have all my cookies from Firefox/Chrome in memory, how do I give them to libcurl? If the only option is to use a <em>cookies.txt</em> file, what should I write in the flag field?</p>
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