Safari won't save history

[erifash]

After upgrading my iPod Touch to 2.0.2 and jailbreaking using QuickPwn, Safari will save my bookmarks but not my history.

I went into /mobile/Library/Safari to check it out and there was a History.plist, but it remained at a constant 95 bytes, no matter how many websites I visited. I backed up the History.plist and deleted it to see if Safari would make a new one. It didn't. Although Safari does keep my history in memory until I close all tabs.

So Safari will write to Bookmarks and SuspendState, but not History. I have tried changing the permissions and using chown, but it didn't work.

I am writing a small ruby script with functionality similar to HistoryDL and I have been using SuspendState.plist instead, with limited success. It would really help if I could access my actual history...

Anyone know what I could do?

 

[erifash]

Ruby source code

I figured I might as well post the code I have so far...

I'm just learning ruby but I figured out why SuspendState.plist wasn't working some of the time so I fixed my code. Frankly, the only people that should be using this are those who know their way around the terminal, so I don't think I have to explain all the details. 🙂 The script should work anywhere you put it.

This script does NOT read your history. Instead, it uses Safari's SuspendState so what you want to download MUST be open in a tab. It will prompt you for what tab you want to download.

require 'open-uri'

plist = "/private/var/mobile/Library/Safari/SuspendState.plist"
dir = "/private/var/mobile/Library/Downloads/"

url = ""
file = ""

begin
    File.open(plist, "r") do |state|
        url = state.read.scan(/[a-z]+:\/\/.+#/).to_a.collect { |x| x.to_s.chomp("#") }
    end
rescue Errno::ENOENT 
    puts "Error opening SuspendState.plist"
    Process.exit
rescue NoMethodError
    puts "No entries in SuspendState.plist"
    Process.exit
rescue
    raise $!
end

begin
    count = 0
    url.each do |str|
        count += 1
        puts "[" + count.to_s + "] " + str
    end
    print "Item: "
    item = gets.chomp.to_i - 1
    if item < 0 or item > count - 1
        puts "Item does not exist"
        Process.exit
    end
    url = url[item]
    file = url.split("/", -1).last
    file = file.empty? ? dir + "index.htm" : dir + file
    puts file
rescue NoMethodError
    puts "Item does not exist"
    Process.exit
rescue
	raise $!
end
print "Confirm? (y/n) "
if gets.chomp != "y"
    Process.exit
end

begin
    open(url) do |stream|
        begin
            File.open(file, "w+") do |f|
                f.print stream.read
            end
        rescue Errno::ENOENT
            puts "Error opening file"
            Process.exit
        rescue
            raise $!
        end
    end
rescue Errno::ENOENT
    puts "Error opening URL"
    Process.exit
rescue SocketError
    puts "No internet connection"
    Process.exit
rescue OpenURI::HTTPError
    puts "URL does not exist"
    Process.exit
rescue
    raise $!
end

puts "Complete."

Again, I apologize for the noobish code. 😀