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Re: lynx-dev Cookie+PostQuery+Dump_Immediately bug :)
From: |
brian j. pardy |
Subject: |
Re: lynx-dev Cookie+PostQuery+Dump_Immediately bug :) |
Date: |
Fri, 20 Nov 1998 17:34:07 -0800 |
On Prickle-Prickle, the 32nd of The Aftermath, 3164, Elwin M. Oost wrote:
> Hi,
>
> First off, thank you all for giving Lynx to the community!
>
> I _think_ I found a bug in LYCookies.c (Lynx 2.8.1).
>
> I wanted to automate post-query'ing a site which redirects Lynx with a 302
> (yes, it's Microsoft :) to another page. It uses cookies to save info.
>
> Browsing everything went fine, but using post_data Lynx kept losing the
> cookie. I checked the help rigorously and after that the source to find some
> switch I had forgotten, but I _think_ I found a bug there.
>
> store_cookie (LYCookies.c) skips walking through domain_list if
> dump_output_immediately=TRUE. However, 'de' which holds the domain_entry is
> initialized during this walk.
>
> As such, HTConfirmCookie (HTAlert.c) receives an empty 'de' and will
> reject it.
Taking a look at the code you mentioned, it looks to me like you're right.
Does anyone know a reason for the current behavior? It definitely seems
wrong to me.
Will have a patch soon-ish to take care of this, unless someone has a
reason against it..
--
Real programs don't eat cache.