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Re: [Lynx-dev] passwords & cookies
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Thomas Dickey |
Subject: |
Re: [Lynx-dev] passwords & cookies |
Date: |
Fri, 22 Apr 2005 08:40:55 -0400 |
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On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 07:03:50AM -0400, Philip Webb wrote:
> one of my daily reads is the Toronto Star,
> which introduced a free login system last year.
> when i read it with Firefox, having long ago entered my username & password
> & allowed its cookies, it comes up w/o hindrance every time.
> when i go to use Lynx to grab an article to e-mail to someone,
> having restarted Lynx at the beginning of my day's Linux session,
> i have to re-enter my username & password & reply 'a' to 3 cookies.
> i have 'persistent cookies' set in my Lynx config file.
>
> am i missing something or doesn't Lynx do what Firefox does ?
But there are also session cookies - perhaps Firefox is set to accept
all cookies and lynx is not. (I don't recall the details, but lynx
can be set to accept all valid cookies - it's only the malformed ones
that it insists on prompting).
--
Thomas E. Dickey
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net
- [Lynx-dev] passwords & cookies, Philip Webb, 2005/04/22
- Re: [Lynx-dev] passwords & cookies,
Thomas Dickey <=
- [Lynx-dev] Re: passwords & cookies, Morten Bo Johansen, 2005/04/22
- Re: [Lynx-dev] Re: passwords & cookies, Philip Webb, 2005/04/22
- [Lynx-dev] Re: passwords & cookies, Morten Bo Johansen, 2005/04/22
- Re: [Lynx-dev] Re: passwords & cookies, Philip Webb, 2005/04/22
- [Lynx-dev] README.options, Stef Caunter, 2005/04/26
- Re: [Lynx-dev] README.options, Bela Lubkin, 2005/04/28
- Re: [Lynx-dev] README.options, Thorsten Glaser, 2005/04/28
- Re: [Lynx-dev] README.options, Stef Caunter, 2005/04/28
- [Lynx-dev] README.cookies, Stef Caunter, 2005/04/26
- Re: [Lynx-dev] Re: passwords & cookies, Philip Webb, 2005/04/22