Re: lynx-dev cookies over multiple sessions

[Larry W. Virden, x2487]

> since I last logged into the site.  However, when I eexit lynx, it saves
> all my cookies into /dev/null.  Is it possible to get it to read and write
> a .cookies.txt file or something so the cookie support is actually useful.

Technically, this seems possible.

> I would patch this myself but don't know that much about c.  Would a patch
> for tfor that feature be difficult?  I guess it would scince it wasn't
> implemented.  Any comments or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

I would propose a different reason why it hasn't been implemented.
I am NOT stating this is the reason - just that there are other possible
explanations

There have been few folk submitting code changes to lynx.  Of those few folk,
none have taken on the project of adding persistence to cookie handling.

To add the persistence, one way I could imagine that one could do it
might be

1. upon first encountering a cookie, load into memory all the cookies
found in the cookie.txt file.  If a format identical to that used by one
or more other browsers were chosen, one might be able to share cookies...

2. Upon receipt of a cookie to be placed into the jar, all cookies be written
out, rather than attempting to figure out what line in the jar to write
in place or append to the end.  If you don't do this, then you have to worry
about how to handle crash conditions.
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