Re: lynx-dev ?Fixed in 2.8.1?

[Leonid Pauzner]

4-Apr-99 11:15 Paul Wagner wrote:
> I have having the following problem with 2.8 as shipped with RedHat 5.1
> (I am in Windoze right now, I think the rpm began with lynx-2.8rel3 or
> something similar).

> On our corporate internet, we have a domain (MMIT-SMDB.mcit.com) which
> we often refer to as mmit-smdb.mcit.com within links. As we understand
> it, case sensitivity does NOT apply to domains, either should work. The
> problem comes in Lynx when cookies are of different case than the link;
> lynx apparently thinks they are different domains, and doesn't send the
> cookies back when it needs to. Once we isolated the main problem on the
> server side (we were redirecting to a login screen, capturing
> ID/password, sending cookies, then redirecting back to the protected
> page), and fixed it by making sure redirects were always lower case
> (consistent with the prevailing casing for the domain), the problem went
> away.

> The question, however, remains: domains should NOT be case sensitive,
> and cookies should ignore case on domain names when deciding whether to
> send them. I read the CHANGES file on 2.8.1, and saw reference to string
> case routines and LYcookie.c or something like that. If this is an
> indirect or direct relative of this problem, and it has been solved,

Thanks for your report!
This was not fixed yet, will be patched in next week' development version.

* Cookies: domains now matches case insensitively
  (reported by  Paul Wagner <address@hidden>) - LP


> great. Otherwise, please add this to the buglist and patch the routines
> which compare domains on cookies to case them the same (eg. both lower
> case) before comparing them.

> Thanks, and kudos for your continued support/enhancement of lynx...

> Paul Wagner
> MCI WorldCom