Re: LYNX-DEV quote.yahoo.com, and cookies in general

[Matt Ackeret]

> Interestingly enough, I suspect that the answer to your first problem is
> in your second question.  When you sign up for a yahoo account, you get
> a login cookie.  Each future access to the yahoo login looks for that
> cookie.  But since lynx doesn't currently support persistent cookies (aka
> the cookie jar) yahoo doesn't find it, and thus sends you off to the page
> telling you why your browser needs to support cookies.  They need to update
> that page to indicate that your browser needs to support the SAVING of
> cookies between sessions...

Well, I just tried *creating* an account with Lynx, hoping that I could
prove your theory.. (since if I create it, and then try to log on during the
same session, it should work.)

Well, I can't even create an account.

I never get past the "Create account now" button..  (Actually I did, once,
when I used the same name "testlynx" and password.. but I got to an error
screen telling me the name and password were the same... basically _another_
signup form.. )

At this second signup form, at the "Create account now" submit button, 
I get 
Redirection of POST content. P)roceed, see U)RL, use G)ET or C)ancel

and Proceed does nothing/I get back to where I started.. (in other words,
I'm not sure if it's doing ANYTHING).

G)et gets me to the same error screen as I got when I tried to _log in_ from
lynx originally..

Siiiigh..  something's strange here.