Re: lynx-dev persistent cookies note

[brian j. pardy]

Larry W. Virden wrote:
> Okay, here's what I did.
> 
> Built lynx dev23 with persistent cookies configured in.
> Configured $HOME/.lynxrc to accept cookies from yahoo.com.
> Created a 600 permission file called cookies that was empty.
> Went to http://my.yahoo.com/
> Told lynx that I really did want the two erroneous cookies from yahoo
>       (boy, I wish this step wasn't occuring).

I posted something about how this could be done, but I didn't receive any
feedback from anyone else on whether or not we want to do this. It's a
quick patch if we don't make it an option, and take "accept ALL cookies"
literally.

> Logged into yahoo.
> Typed a ^K
> I wasn't sure what to do now, so I went thru and accessed the DOMAIN= links
> and indicated I wanted to save these cookies.

I don't believe anything needs to be done after hitting ^K to save the
cookies.

> I then returned to the yahoo page and exited lynx.
> I then returned to the yahoo site.
> 
> I see a string of msgs regarding cookie expiration dates streaming by on
> stdout, but I can't read them because lynx clears the screen and puts up
> the first page.

I'm not sure if that is debugging info that was left in, or exactly what.

> I wonder if the expirations should be only to the trace file or some other
> cookie type page.
> 
> Wish list - that I could specify cookie jars in my lynxrc file.  I suspect
> others would like command line cookie jars, which I take it was in a
> patch earlier this week.

Taken care of. :)

> However, at least at yahoo, this seemed to work .

Great.

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