Re: [Lynx-dev] lynx and amazon?

[Karen Lewellen]

Well, that is most informative.
Indeed my problems with amazon, at least the cookie one started late 
January.
I noticed a comment from Thomas that spoke of extending the date table.
Any idea when that patch will be ready?
Karen



On Sat, 31 Aug 2019, Ian Collier wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 05:51:42PM -0400, Karen Lewellen wrote:
> >  Am I correct in understanding that the cookie that should be accepted has a
> > latter time than 2038, meaning it is being rejected perhaps creating part of
> > the issue?
>
> That is correct (and sorry I didn't see this message earlier).  One or more
> of the cookies that Amazon uses during the login process has a date later
> than 2038, and Lynx is failing to store these cookies because of a bug in the
> current version of Lynx.
>
> My understanding is that this has only been a problem since the beginning of
> this year, because the cookies have a 20-year lifetime and therefore last
> year the date would have been 2038 and Lynx accepts that.
>
> imc
>
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