question: how are cookies managed?

[Danfro]

Because cookies are useful but can be bad, I would like to know how cookies are managed by the app?

Are they cleared when the app is closed? If not, that would be a nice option for a future release.

[nicolascolla]

The documentation for webapp-container says the following:

--store-session-cookies Store session cookies on disk

The app runs without this flag, so I imagine that no cookies are being stored on disk. However, the cookie banners don't seem to reappear after an app relaunch, so I wonder if it is enabled by default. Maybe the overlay (--open-external-url-in-overlay) does store all cookies by default.

[Danfro]

There are cookies stored on disk under home/.local/share/headline.collaproductions/. In my case there are some cookies in there e.g. for the guardian. That rss is removed now, but it was in your initial version. So cookies stay stored. That of course needs to be true for the cookie banners to not reappear.

Isn't a session cookie one that should get cleared after the app is closed? So I assume the default is to store all cookies and keep them.

[nicolascolla]

I have tried deleting all cookies, reopening the app with --store-session-cookies, and cookies remain stored after closing the app. So I think the behaviour is related to the overlay.