[PyQt] save cookies and temp files to prefered folder

[Detlev Offenbach]

You can check the eric web browser, which is part of the eric5 IDE.

On Monday 12 May 2014, 12:53:37 Peter Irbizon wrote:
> Hi Florian,
> 
> thank you for your kind answer! I am trying to do my tiny webbrowser with
> ability to destroy all cookies (and tracking data) used by visited pages.
> My idea - I click on button "Erase all" and it should erase all cookies and
> tracking data so when I open page again it should be empty.
> 
> Many thanks
> Peter
> 
> 2014-05-11 23:16 GMT+02:00 Florian Bruhin <me at the-compiler.org>:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > * Peter Irbizon <peterirbizon at gmail.com> [2014-05-11 23:05:55 +0200]:
> > > Hello, I am building simple web browser with pyqt.
> > 
> > Cool, I'm doing the same basically! (except maybe not simple :P)
> > Is your code available somewhere?
> > 
> > > Please how can I set in my app to store all cookies and temporary
> > > files to selected folder for opened website? Example is appreciated.
> > 
> > For temporary files: It depends what you mean exactly, but for things
> > like favicons/page cache/HTML5 storage/..., you simply need to do
> > 
> > something like:
> >     QWebSettings.globalSettings().setLocalStoragePath('/some/path')
> > 
> > See:
> > 
> > http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/qwebsettings.html#globalSettings
> > http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/qwebsettings.html#setLocalStoragePath
> > 
> > 
> > If you want caching of web content, it'll be a bit more complicated
> > though, I think you need to subclass QNetworkAccessManager and use a
> > QNetworkDiskCache.
> > 
> > 
> > For Cookies, you need to subclass QNetworkCookieJar and add some way
> > to save and load cookies.
> > 
> > Example:
> > 
> > http://git.the-compiler.org/qutebrowser/tree/qutebrowser/browser/cookies.p
> > y
> > 
> > 
> > I'd really like to hear more of your project! You can reach me under
> > this address via mail or Jabber, or in IRC (#pyqt on Freenode for
> > example).
> > 
> > Florian
> > 
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