I'm trying save certain cookies from being cleared by Vivaldi on
closing. I cannot find such a setting in the mess of settings
provided.

Any Vivaldi users have an answer?

On 8/20/2022 8:42 PM, Georgio@eternal-september.org wrote:
> I'm trying save certain cookies from being cleared by Vivaldi on
> closing. I cannot find such a setting in the mess of settings
> provided.
>
> Any Vivaldi users have an answer?
>

https://help.vivaldi.com/desktop/privacy/cookies/

There is "Allow" or "Deny", there is no "Keep"
(no marking a cookie for Keepage).

And deleting cookies one at a time, is not a way to manage it.

https://help.vivaldi.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Cookies-filter-cookies-1.png

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This is to give you some idea, where your Cookies live, and how you can
store the file as text.

C:\Users\Bullwinkle\AppData\Local\Vivaldi\User Data\Default\Network\Cookies 192KB

sqlite3.exe Cookies .dump > Cookies.txt # Always work with a copy of the file.

The Cookies.txt is a recipe on "how to make Cookies binary file again while
using sqlite3.exe". It's the textual recipe on how to build the database.

This is the contents of Cookies.txt showing one cookie formatted for easier reading.
Some of the other cookies are smaller than this, in terms of bytes of storage.
I was expecting vimeo.com to be encoded as a "magic integer", and using the
domain string like this, I was not expecting such transparency in the db.

PRAGMA foreign_keys=OFF;
BEGIN TRANSACTION;
CREATE TABLE meta(key LONGVARCHAR NOT NULL UNIQUE PRIMARY KEY, value LONGVARCHAR);
INSERT INTO meta VALUES('mmap_status','-1');
INSERT INTO meta VALUES('version','18');
INSERT INTO meta VALUES('last_compatible_version','18');
CREATE TABLE cookies(creation_utc INTEGER NOT NULL,
host_key TEXT NOT NULL,
top_frame_site_key TEXT NOT NULL,
name TEXT NOT NULL,
value TEXT NOT NULL,
encrypted_value BLOB NOT NULL, <=== local encryption, to prevent theft???
path TEXT NOT NULL,
expires_utc INTEGER NOT NULL,
is_secure INTEGER NOT NULL,
is_httponly INTEGER NOT NULL,
last_access_utc INTEGER NOT NULL,
has_expires INTEGER NOT NULL,
is_persistent INTEGER NOT NULL,
priority INTEGER NOT NULL,
samesite INTEGER NOT NULL,
source_scheme INTEGER NOT NULL,
source_port INTEGER NOT NULL,
is_same_party INTEGER NOT NULL,
last_update_utc INTEGER NOT NULL);
INSERT INTO cookies VALUES(13305568903952914,'.vimeo.com','','__cf_bm','',
X'763130da2a772c234ee018076d6a2766c5a2a4b1b9c5638be9438a68e2280fe9cf756f5acf737008455d7
96f82273d4a37d6a3a85d16227f5245c6f149ab24dd312a95570ef591a96fa0d074d32537391be8a0df8c
bb895a33a9d283ff048daa01117142cca195de75decfd7f094d7db01e1a5cdf3d98846d11ac0a56306ee0
88aa91b214717b6552451346327f620b67fc34f6d095404d68169965b6a3ffccd3805e35ea739050a8727
c0b344f85919',
'/',13305570703952914,1,1,13305568903952914,1,1,1,0,2,443,0,13305568903952971);

The INSERT INTO cookies would be a way of adding a cookie
back, but then look at the folder again.

Cookies 192K
Cookies-journal 0 bytes # OK, no chance of journal playback conflict
3 Just the dates on the files, hint at screwing around

So it would appear amenable to edits, after a fashion.

You would need to issue commands to sqlite3, one at a time, and
a script file (sqlite3 will read a script), could be used to do it.

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The encrypted blob, would not include the encryption used
by the originating website. So even with the blob protection
removed, it does not imply human-accessibility. A hint as
to encryption handling is here, but this is past my pay scale.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50886719/can-i-export-cookies-from-python-to-chrome

There is an sqlite browser. But perhaps, just like my example
above, not a preferred tool for end-users particularly.
While I've used this tool, and put an sqlite file back into
service, I have not extensively tested this for the damage it could do.
When an sqlite database has a lot of fields, the display can be
very wide and unwieldy.

https://sqlitebrowser.org/

Paul

On Sun, 21 Aug 2022 11:16:17 -0400, Paul <nospam@needed.invalid>
wrote:

>On 8/20/2022 8:42 PM, Georgio@eternal-september.org wrote:
>> I'm trying save certain cookies from being cleared by Vivaldi on
>> closing. I cannot find such a setting in the mess of settings
>> provided.
>>
>> Any Vivaldi users have an answer?
>>
>
>https://help.vivaldi.com/desktop/privacy/cookies/
>
>There is "Allow" or "Deny", there is no "Keep"
>(no marking a cookie for Keepage).
>
>And deleting cookies one at a time, is not a way to manage it.
>
>https://help.vivaldi.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Cookies-filter-cookies-1.png
>
>*******

>
> Paul

Sorry to have put you through all that writing, much of which I have
left out of this answer.

I've decided to just allow all cookies and let the browser dump them
after the session.

There was only one I wanted saved from being dumped. it was my bank
account. Without any cookie saved, I have to log in and have them
setup a new cookie deal for me through texting. However, after
thinking it over, I guess that amounts to double authentication, and
that is really the way to go when accessing bank dealings.

Thanks for answering.