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Re: lynx-dev cookie incompatibility
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Thomas E. Dickey |
Subject: |
Re: lynx-dev cookie incompatibility |
Date: |
Tue, 18 Jul 2000 16:05:21 -0400 (EDT) |
On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Klaus Weide wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, James Phillips wrote:
> > > > Unfortunately, Staples.ca is not completely compatible with the
> > > > Lynx
> > > > browser. You may want to try accessing our site using a
> > > different
> > > > browser to see if you have better results. Our site is fully
> > > > compatible
> > > > with both Netscape and Internet Explorer.
>
> Not just "not completely compatible", but for all I can see deliberately
> incompatible with lynx. That's in addition to deliberately incompatible
> with non-cookie browsers, and browsers with cookies disabled.
>
> They just redirect to the cookieerror.asp page, only they know why,
> even when the cookies are being sent.
What I can see in the trace doesn't seem to show anything more than
that they have the user-agent at the point where they've decided
to error-out. Is my impression correct?
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Re: lynx-dev cookie incompatibility, Henry Nelson, 2000/07/18
Re: lynx-dev cookie incompatibility, James Phillips, 2000/07/19