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Re: lynx-dev Accepting invalid cookies - was: cookie bug (not in lynx)
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David Woolley |
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Re: lynx-dev Accepting invalid cookies - was: cookie bug (not in lynx) |
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Tue, 29 Dec 1998 00:53:49 +0000 (GMT) |
> I checked some of the history of ACCEPT_ALL_COOKIES in the archives. I
> get the impression that at first this flag just meant "accept cookies
I think it was overtaken by the school of thought that says that Lynx
should behave as brokenly as GUI browsers so that users don't have
to keep accepting warnings on broken sites. Someone argued that
"accept all cookies" really meant, "I never want to be warned about
any use of cookies".