[Adium-devl] Facebook/Safari

[David Smith]

On Jan 5, 2009, at 8:43 AM, Evan Schoenberg wrote:

> Facebook + Safari is nasty, because the shared cookie storage leads  
> us to continually be logged out and for Safari's Facebook to be, as  
> well.
>
> I spent yesterday evening and this morning working on "AICookieJar",  
> an attempt at manually managing cookies independent of the  
> systemwide storage.
>
> The success: I can make a WebKit window pass a simple cookie test as  
> in http://www.tempesttech.com/cookies/cookietest1.asp while using  
> our own cookie storage.
>
> The failure: Facebook doesn't work with it. I don't understand why,  
> as at this point I am doing, at our level, exactly what the working  
> Pidgin Facebook plugin does as far as I can tell. I think it's  
> possible that -[NSMutableURLRequest setHTTPShouldHandleCookies:NO]  
> doesn't just disable the "default cookie handling" as the  
> documentation says but actively forces it to strip out outgoing  
> cookies.
>
> So....
>
> one solution would be to just switch to the Pidgin Facebook plugin,  
> since it implements its own HTTP stack and gets us completely away  
> from whatever weird internals are messing this up. It' s a pretty  
> easy switch, and as far as I know it's feature equivalent.  It's sad  
> to me to see my rather elegant (if I say so myself) Facebook  
> implementation get trashed...but that's no reason not to do it.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> -Evan

Random possibility would be to check that we aren't somehow disabling  
cookies for Adium via a preference we set on one of our webviews.

Other than that, I like the idea of less code to compile/maintain, and  
fixing bugs "for free", but I reaaaaaally wish facebook would get off  
their butts and get that xmpp server working so we could drop the  
whole thing.

					David