Re: lynx-dev lynx-2.8.2 and Cookies

[ONIME EHIMIKA OHIREIME]

Dear Klaus,

I would like lynx to update the persistent cookie file even when the
option -source is included.

Well about why I am not really worried about the rejected cookie, because
the same cookie gets set by a different server (via a redirection) and it
becomes accepted by lynx. 

Thanks
Clement Onime

Some extra informaton
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Incidentally, I am the author of an e-mail to web gateway called www4mail.
This gateway software was written in perl but uses lynx to perform the
Network access, primarily because lynx suports things such as redirection
and cookies.. (personally I think lynx is an excellent and useful browser,
so why write a new one).
This gateway offers in addition to web access, cookie handling, language
and character set support for users of e-mail to web gateways.

For the cookie handling, each user gets a unique cookie file created from
his e-mail address and a Lynx CFG file is created for each run of lynx.
The CFG file would have things like the cookie file location, accepted
languages, charsets and co..

Typically the gateway expects to download the HTML source but does not
worry about thinks like cookies and co.

The HTML source may be modified before being sent to the user in order to
permit WEB browsing by e-mail.

The primary gateway address@hidden currently serves about
2000 requests daily.

I had modified lynx version 2.8.1 to do this but It wouldn't be nice to
keep patching every new version of lynx, it means that we the operators of
www4mail gateways cannot just upgrade to the latest version of lynx..

Thanks 
Clement Onime

On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Klaus Weide wrote:

> Sorry, forgot to cc this to you (in case you are not subscribed to the
> list).
> 
>    Klaus
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> Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 09:53:14 -0500 (CDT)
> From: Klaus Weide <address@hidden>
> Reply-To: address@hidden
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: lynx-dev lynx-2.8.2 and Cookies
> 
> On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, ONIME EHIMIKA OHIREIME wrote:
> > I have attached a new trace from the command line
> > /mirror/lynx2-8-2/lynx -trace -dump http://mail.yahoo.com > tmp.html
> > 
> > As you can see, lynx created the cookie here (when we have only -dump but
> > not when we have -source)..
> > 
> > Please note there are two requests to set cookies (The first is rejected
> > but the second is accepted).
> 
> I think it's time for you to define more clearly what the problem is.
> 
> I assumed in my previous response that the problem was the rejection
> of the first cookie.  But apparently that's not the problem you want to
> solve at all.  (Why?  Does it not matter?)
> 
> I would guess that the difference you are talking about is that for
> -source the cookie file is not updated.  But before I guess wrong again,
> please try to explain explicitly what the problem(s) is/are.
> 
>    Klaus
> 
>