Bug 200298 – [WPE][GTK] WebKitCookieManager fails to persist if its persistent storage set before WebKitWebsiteDataManager assigned to WebKitWebContext

• Status: NEW
• Component: WebKitGTK

[Andri Möll]

Hey,

Turns out if you get the cookie manager off of a new non-ephemeral WebKitWebsiteDataManager and set its persistence with `webkit_cookie_manager_set_persistent_storage`, that fails to take effect if you haven't created a WebKitWebContext with the data manager prior with `webkit_web_context_new_with_website_data_manager`. Because I think it's quite natural to configure a data manager before passing it onward for web context use, having such a "forward" dependency isn't intuitive. Nor mentioned in documentation, as far I noticed.

This with WebKitGTK v2.24.3.

Cheers

[Michael Catanzaro]

Hm, I agree this is a problem. Basically all of the WebKitCookieManager functions will fail before the WebKitWebsiteDataManager is associated to a WebKitWebContext. That shouldn't be, but it's not straightforward to fix.

We used to have a similar bug, where the calls would fail even after the WebKitWebContext is associated if before the first web process is launched. (I'm pretty sure that's still broken on Mac, actually.)