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Re: lynx-dev Patch to 2.8rel2 to accept all cookies


From: David Henderson
Subject: Re: lynx-dev Patch to 2.8rel2 to accept all cookies
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 09:39:47 -0500 (CDT)

>     * Subject: Re: lynx-dev Patch to 2.8rel2 to accept all cookies
>     * From: Matthew Kelly <address@hidden>
>     * Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 09:40:24 -0400 (EDT)

>>> send_cookies : YES / NO / TO_ORIGINATING_SITE

>> What's the difference between YES and TO_ORIGINATING_SITE - Cookies
>> should never be sent anywhere else.

>Netscape has a cookie setting
>    'only accept cookies originating from the same server as the page being
>    viewed.'
>I guess thats what I meant..

That refers to <IMG>s et al, which are not on the same server.  Example:

You have a page: http://blah.bl/file.html
and it includes an image: http://ad.doubleclick.com/1234.gif

Doubleclick tries to send a cookie, and if (in Netscape) you have Cookies
set to "Yes", then Netscape will add that cookie to its jar, and send it
back whenever you load another ad from doubleclick.

But if you have Cookies set to "only from the same server" (NOTE: it does
*not* say "only *to* the same server"), then Netscape will accept whatever
cookies http://blah/file.html sends, but will ignore any cookies from
doubleclick, because "ad.doubleclick.com" != "blah.bl".

This particular setting is irrelevant for Lynx use since Lynx always makes
only a single connection and doesn't load anything other than from the one
server it's talking to.  If some sort of style sheet support is eventually
added, there could potentially be a situation where a style sheet is
loaded from an alternate server, but the best bet there would IMHO be to
ignore any cookies set while loading the SS.

David Henderson
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