Re: lynx-dev Re: Cookie trace messages

[David Woolley]

> I make some cleanup (below), but while inspecting a trace I was surprized
> enough: I have a persistent cookie which signed as expired in 1970
> but dev.9  load/store it nicely every session (should delete, right?).

>         5:0x8110f9c:0xbfffe6e7:[ASPSESSIONIDGQQGQQYP]

> expires:        Thu Jan  1 03:00:00 1970

This is a session cookie.  The date is actually the Unix epoch
in your timezone; i.e. it is 0 in the internal representation of
Unix times (00:00:00 UTC Jan 1 1970).

Session cookies, like this one from Microsoft's Active Server Pages
product, are relatively benign - they are used for things like 
shopping carts, not for constructing marketing profiles on individuals.
They should never be stored in a permanent cookies file.