Re: lynx-dev 2.8.1dev.19.patch.gz

[brian j. pardy]

Bela Lubkin wrote:
> brian j. pardy wrote:
> Message-ID:  <address@hidden>
> 
> > I don't think I'll be implementing the idea of logging received cookies
> > with the -accept_all_cookies option, as I figure that just looking at the
> > cookie jar page should be enough logging within a session, and persistent
> > cookies should end up being all the logging one needs, anyways.
> 
> You could log all cookies by simply putting them all in the persistent
> cookie jar.  Unaccepted cookies would be marked as such, so Lynx
> wouldn't "know" about them for remote queries.  Likewise for accepted-
> but-not-permanent cookies.  Lynx would "know" about them for the current
> session, they would be logged in the cookie jar, but Lynx wouldn't
> reload them at the next session.  A human looking at the persistent
> cookie jar file would be able to see all cookies received; Lynx would
> pay attention only to the ones it had previously marked as "accepted,
> persistent".

Right. That's how I'm doing things now. The patch right now just
interrupts the LYgetch() when it prompts to accept/reject/deny a cookie,
and sends it an 'A'. The existing cookie handling code takes care of
putting them into the cookie jar, and RP's code should handle when they
stick around or not. I'm heading them off before they even get to the rest
of the code, currently.

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