[elinks-users] Elinks cookie file format

[Witold Filipczyk]

On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 12:39:02PM +0200, Matej Kopal wrote:
> Hi,
> I start using Elinks web browser and everything was fine until I start
> using a cookies. I import Mozilla (Firefox) cookie file. I mean I copy
> Firefox cookie file into home directory of Elinks ( ~/.elinks/cookies
> ). But it looks like Elinks and Firefox has different cookies file
> format.
> 
> So I browse a web and I found perl script
> (http://www.cryptosystem.org/archives/2006/04/converting-netscape-cookies-files/
> ) which should convert Netscape cookies into Elinks cookies, but it
> was not working for me. May be I am doing something wrong, but I have
> no clue how Elinks format should look.
> 
> So can you help me with this cookies conversion problem or just
> forward me on right way.

Here is a simple Python script to convert Mozilla cookies to the ELinks format.
Usage, eg. $ python cook.py file_with_mozilla_cookies >> ~/.elinks/cookies
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#!/usr/bin/env python
import sys
from cookielib import *

def main():
	if len(sys.argv) == 1:
		print "Usage:", sys.argv[0], "filename_with_mozilla_cookies"
		return 1
	cookies = MozillaCookieJar()
	cookies.load(sys.argv[1])
	for cookie in cookies:
		cookie.domain = cookie.domain[1:]
		print "%s\t%s\t%s\t%s\t%s\t%d\t%d" % (cookie.name, cookie.value, cookie.domain, cookie.path, cookie.domain, cookie.expires, cookie.secure) 

if __name__ == '__main__':
	main()