Re: LYNX-DEV v2.7 pre-release update

[Les Wallis]

This is probably a stupid question but ... what's a cookie? Is it anything
like an applet?

On Sun, 9 Feb 1997, Foteos Macrides wrote:

>       Yet another update of the v2.7 pre-release is available in:
>       
>       http://www.slcc.edu/lynx/fote/
> 
> 02-09-97
> * Enhanced the Set-Cookie header parser to handle values that contain
>   spaces but were not enclosed in double-quotes, and to use such
>   quoting or not when sending Cookie headers, depending on whether
>   this was done in the Set-Cookie header.  Also added anti-crash
>   checks should the parser's efforts to handle both historical (a.k.a.
>   original Netscape) cookies and Version 1 cookies go awry (does deal
>   successfully now with all the cookies which had been reported as
>   problematic). - FM
> * Mods of the screen handling in LYNews.c for cleaning up any screen
>   trash created by the external editor. - FM
> * Tracked down an uninitialized pointer in LYNews.c that probably was
>   behind reports of crashes when posting to newsgroups. - FM
> * Plugged a memory leak in LYMainLoop.c. - TJC
> * Added posting ability to the news gateway, in lieu of the previous,
>   variably reliable, use of a spawned news client for posting.  The
>   news, nntp, and snews URLs now all return links for posting new
>   messages or followups (replies) to the server from which a newsgroup
>   listing or news article was retrieved, unless the server indicates
>   that it does not accept posts from the site at which Lynx is running.
>   See the updated INSTALLATION, userdefs.h, and lynx.cfg files, the
>   "USENET News posting" section of the Users Guide, and "Supported URLs"
>   page of the online 'h'elp for more information.
> * Fixed typo for e-dieresis in the KOI8-R charset. - AJF
> * Replaced an inappropriate _user_message() call in HTConfirmCookie()
>   of HTAlert.c with a _statusline() call.  The original code could
>   cause crashes with some cookie values. - FM
> 
> 
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