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List:       kde-bugs-dist
Subject:    [Bug 64182] When closing the konqueror window that created the
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () kde ! org>
Date:       2004-04-01 10:56:12
Message-ID: 20040401105612.17759.qmail () ktown ! kde ! org
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------- Additional Comments From bastian kde org  2004-04-01 12:56 -------
The problem as originally reported is by design. The issue that is reported in #10 \
sounds like a bug though.

The design of Konqueror is such that session cookies are removed when all windows \
that have referenced the cookie have been closed. Since Konqueror doesn't really exit \
in some circumstances and since it is somewhat arbitrary which konqueror window \
belongs to which konqueror process it doesn't seem like a good idea to tie the \
lifetime of session cookies to the lifetime of the konqueror process itself.

The alternative is to tie the lifetime of session cookies to the lifetime of the KDE \
session. This is what we used to do but leads to the undesired situation that cookies \
for e.g. banking sessions remain  around longer than one would expect in some \
circumstances, in particular the cookie might still be around after closing the \
window used to browse the bank site and still be available when revisiting the bank \
site.

I'm looking into a solution where the lifetime of the session cookie remains tied to \
the window in which the cookie is referenced but to expand that more agressively to \
other windows under some circumstances. In particular in the case where a main-site \
opens a popup-window to set a cookie, this cookie should somehow also be associated \
with the window of the main-site.


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