Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx 3.0

[Duncan Hill]

On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, Hiram Lester, Jr. wrote:

> security issues involved.  I, on the other hand, are not paranoid about
> such things, and would rather have them all accepted by default.  Lynx
> provides means to examine and delete them at will, so that is plenty for
> me.  I think a .lynxrc setting should be provided to totally disable
> cookies, accept all the time, or prompt as it does now with prompt being
> the default.  The only problem I could see is that if some sysadmin REALLY

Hmm..I think you'd have to put up a message saying that it has accepted a
cookie..ie, its in the .lynxrc, and the user has forgotten.  They visit
Infoseek, and see "Cookie accepted for <domain>" perhaps?

Duncan Hill
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