[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 213471] [WPE][GTK] Add API to configure deviceidhashsalts directory to WebKitWebsiteDataManager

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=213471

--- Comment #4 from Carlos Garcia Campos <cgarcia at igalia.com> ---
(In reply to Alejandro G. Castro from comment #3)
> (In reply to Michael Catanzaro from comment #0)
> > I noticed I have a
> > ~/.var/app/org.gnome.Epiphany.Devel/data/webkitgtk/deviceidhashsalts
> > directory. ~/.var/app/org.gnome.Epiphany.Devel/data/webkitgtk/ should not
> > exist at all because it indicates that WebKit is improperly saving website
> > data outside Epiphany's base data directory (although fortunately the
> > directory is empty?. We should fix it to use the configured base data
> > directory, and maybe also expose API. (But: what are these really,
> > deviceidhashsalts? What are they actually for?)
> > 
> 
> I agree, I think we should use the configured base data directory, they are
> removed when cookies are removed so the user has control over them, I don't
> think we need new API. It is a bug, we probably forgot to add the change of
> this directory and it is using the default location.

Why are they removed with cookies? It's a website data type, so you can fetch and remove it individually like any other type.

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