Re: lynx-dev Persistent cookies between batch-mode Lynx calls?

[Leonid Pauzner]

13-Apr-99 16:24 Hugo Rabson wrote:
> When compiled / configured properly, Lynx handles Hotmail's cookies
> perfectly... when run in interactive mode.

> When called from the command line or from within a script, however, Lynx
> does not seem able to handle Hotmail's cookies.

> Does Lynx clean out / erase its cookie file between sessions (be they
> interactive or command line mode)? Does Lynx simply not save/handle cookies
> in command line mode?

> I'm using these cookie-specific options in /etc/lynx.cfg :-

> # SET_COOKIES:TRUE
> # ACCEPT_ALL_COOKIES:TRUE
> # COOKIE_FILE:~/.lynx_cookies
> # PERSISTENT_COOKIES:TRUE

> All help is appreciated. :)

Could you start lynx with -trace flag both ways and compare
Lynx.trace files near the point where lynx send cookies to hotmail and
where hotmail return cookies back. Whether they have quotes (") or not?
> Hugo


> P.S. Reason behind this post: I'm trying to make a script which will login
> and retrieve emails from Hotmail; the script uses Lynx & Lynx has until now
> been perfect for the job. However, Hotmail has introduced cookies and Lynx
> just can't cope in command line mode.



> --------Hugo Rabson <address@hidden>--------
> Date: 13-Apr-99       Time: 16:17:15
> NT is for the Navy; the Vikings would have used Linux.
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