nsICookiePromptService

The nsICookiePromptService interface is to open a dialog to ask to permission to accept the cookie.

extensions/cookie/nsICookiePromptService.idlScriptable

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Last changed in Gecko 1.9 (Firefox 3)

Inherits from: nsISupports

Method overview

long cookieDialog(in nsIDOMWindow parent, in nsICookie cookie, in ACString hostname, in long cookiesFromHost, in boolean changingCookie, out boolean rememberDecision);

Constants

Constant	Value	Description
`DENY_COOKIE`	`0`	Holds the value for a denying the cookie.
`ACCEPT_COOKIE`	`1`	Holds the value for accepting the cookie.
`ACCEPT_SESSION_COOKIE`	`2`	Holds the value for accepting the session cookie.

Methods

cookieDialog()

Opens a dialog that asks for permission to accept a cookie.

 long cookieDialog(
   in nsIDOMWindow parent,
   in nsICookie cookie,
   in ACString hostname,
   in long cookiesFromHost,
   in boolean changingCookie,
   out boolean rememberDecision
 );

Parameters

parent: The parent window for the dialog.
cookie: The cookie about which permission is being requested.
hostname: The host that wants to set the cookie, not the domain; this is part of the cookie.
cookiesFromHost: The number of cookies there are already for this host.
changingCookie: Are we changing this cookie?
rememberDecision: Should we set the matching permission for this host?

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