[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 #5 from Alejandro G. Castro <alex at igalia.com> ---
(In reply to Carlos Garcia Campos from comment #4)
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> [...]
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> > 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.

It is a recommendation in the spec of how to handle the security information to do it like cookies. It means, we can add support to remove this specific information for a website, but I think currently we just implemented removing it when cookies are removed, this was a long time ago but if I recall correctly this is the code added:

https://trac.webkit.org/changeset/239513/webkit/trunk/Source/WebKit/UIProcess/API/glib/WebKitWebsiteDataManager.cpp

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