Re: lynx-dev Cookie problems?

[Ismael Cordeiro]

On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, brian j. pardy wrote:

> I think this fixes part or all of the problem.
> 
> Laura, could you try this on shopping.com, and Heikki on IMDB? 
> 
> Against pre2.
> 
> fgets() was leaving a newline at the end of each cookie read from the
> persistent cookie file, this patch removes the newline at the end.
> 
> When a domain had more than one cookie, Lynx was improperly sending the
> cookie headers. Where it should be sending:
> 
> Cookie: IMDB[blah]=BLAHBLAHBLAH; IMDB2=BLAH2
> 
> Lynx was sending:
> 
> Cookie: IMDB[blah]=BLAHBLAHBLAH
> ; IMDB2=BLAH2
> 
> This rightfully confused some servers. I think www.slashdot.org was
> working properly for me because I only had one cookie from them.

With your patch Lynx works fine with http://www.medscape.com/

Ismael
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