Re: LYNX-DEV Re: Gimmie a Cookie

[Wayne Buttles]

On Tue, 3 Dec 1996, Hiram Lester, Jr. wrote:

> On Sat, 30 Nov 1996, Wayne Buttles wrote:
> 
> > Has anyone started work on Cookie support?  
> > 
> > I know we talked about this before, but I wasn't sure if anyone went off
> > and worked on it solo.
> 
> No, I looked at it and got hopelessly confused.  I might be able to make
> more sense out of it now that I realize how some of the functions are
> being called.  Before when I looked at it I saw where the parser was
> defined and implemented, but could never find where it was called.  I have
> since seen that for some reason many functions are used in #defines and
> given another name by which they are called, and the function name under
> which they were declared is never used which makes no sense to me as to
> why it would be done that way, but that probably explains why I couldn't
> find the function call... <sigh>
> 

Some of the stuff done in LibWWW is psudo-object oriented programming.  It
is definately not easy to trace without prior knowledge.

Further reading of the cookie spec gives me a bit of a bad taste.  If I
read it right, a browser that wants to say they implement cookies must be
prepared to parse though a file up to 300x4k before each connection to a
url and decide what is appropriate to tell the server when it connects
(as well as dealing with expired info).  I'm sure most cookie files aren't
that big, but it never occured to me that you would have to check the
cookie info before each connection.

Wayne

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