Re: [Lynx-dev] lynx and amazon?

[Thomas Dickey]

----- Original Message -----
| From: "Karen Lewellen" <address@hidden>
| To: "Ian Collier" <address@hidden>
| Cc: "lynx-dev" <address@hidden>
| Sent: Saturday, August 31, 2019 4:35:43 PM
| Subject: Re: [Lynx-dev] lynx and amazon?

| 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

https://github.com/ThomasDickey/lynx-snapshots/commit/ef3a2a4583dd4f4667bd83d6e0b1fcbf837eac12

| 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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