Re: lynx-dev lynx-2.8.2 and Cookies

[Klaus Weide]

On Wed, 16 Jun 1999, ONIME EHIMIKA OHIREIME wrote:

> 
> Dear,
> I just tried again after rebuilding lynx 2.8.2rel.1
> And it still did not work
> BTW The command line is
> /mirror/lynx2-8-2/lynx -source -trace -dump http://mail.yahoo.com > xxx
> 
> I have attached the trace output.

The answer lies (likely) in this part of your trace:


  LYSetCookie called with host 'edit.my.yahoo.com', path '/config',
      and Set-Cookie: 'B=b5rqvq8pf9q0q; expires=Thu, 15 Apr 2010 20:00:00
  GMT; path=/ ;
  domain=.yahoo.com;'
  LYmktime: Parsing 'Thu, 15 Apr 2010 20:00:00 GMT'
  LYmktime: clock=1271361600, ctime=Thu Apr 15 22:00:00 2010
  LYProcessSetCookie: attr=value pair: 'B=b5rqvq8pf9q0q'
                      expires: 1271361600, Thu Apr 15 22:00:00 2010
  
  store_cookie: Rejecting domain '.yahoo.com' for host 'edit.my.yahoo.com'.


In an interactive Lynx session, you would normally get an Invalid Cookie
prompt at this point:

    Accept invalid cookie domain=.yahoo.com for 'edit.my.yahoo.com'?

but with -source or -dump prompts are not possible, so the cookie
is rejected.  It should be accepted, however, if you set validity
checking for the domain to 'loose', i.e. add the following to
your lynx.cfg:

   COOKIE_LOOSE_INVALID_DOMAINS:.yahoo.com

If this doesn't solve the problem, but access works in an interactive
session, take a trace from the interactive session and compare it
to the trace with -dump or -source.

    Klaus