Holy Firefox Sqlite!!!

[Anton Rolls]

Anton Rolls wrote:
> Anton Rolls wrote:
>> Bruce Marshall wrote:
>>> Anyone notice that in your:
>>>
>>> ~/.mozilla/firefox/vdt4357z.default 
>>>
>>> Directory there is a file(s) that start with:
>>>
>>> urlclassifier3.sqlite   (various names)
>>>
>>> Some of these files are huge (like 53mb)
>>>
>>> I deleted them all on a whim the other day and within a day the above file 
>>> came back at   53mb.
>>>
>>> I really don't think these things are necessary....  i.e.  why in heck are 
>>> they so big and what are they doing with them?
>>>
>>> Anyone have a clue?
>> I have a file, only 5MB
>>
>> 	5519360  2008-06-23 23:44  urlclassifier2.sqlite
>>
>> Looking inside, I see some urls and lots of zero bytes.
>> Using gzip -9, the file compresses down to 26% of of
>> its full size.
> 
> It appears to be full of encrypted urls using an
> expired protocol, uggc://.
> 
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/drafts/draft-farah-uggc-protocol/

and it's a very weak encryption - I would say useless.

http://ftp.ist.utl.pt/pub/drafts/draft-farah-uggc-protocol-01.txt

I'm surprised it was adopted for mozilla firefox.
I would have thought they would know better than that.