Re: lynx-dev Accepting invalid cookies - was: cookie bug (not in lynx)

[Risto Widenius]

[been off the list, found this thread today]

"brian j. pardy" <address@hidden>:
> Perhaps a new option similar to COOKIE_ACCEPT_DOMAINS to specify
> servers that are specifically allowed to set invalid domains? I
> can't think of any way to allow such things without violating the
> specification, but it's pretty obvious that some people want such
> things to be allowed.

Agreed. As the person who proposed the patch under discussion, I wish
to defend myself by reminding that by that time, LYAcceptAllCookies
was already used to allow invalid cookies. I just expanded the
behaviour, um, slightly.

I can live without it being part of the Lynx distribution, but I
believe keeping such an option would help many other people to cope
with sites that don't follow the specs. Wasn't it a part of the
philosophy -- to deal with the real world?

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rw