Re: lynx-dev Persistent Cookies Question

[brian j. pardy]

Jonathan Bobin wrote:
> I was just trying out the new feature of Lynx 2.8.1 and I tried to
> link ~/.lynx_cookies to ~/.netscape/cookies and see if I could just share
> the cookie files.
> 
> However, since Netscape uses comments on the first three lines, Lynx gets
> confused and thinks those are actual cookies (removing the lines doesn't
> do anything since Netscape always puts the comments back in).
> 
> Are there any plans to have Lynx interpret hash marks as comments instead
> of cookies?

This patch will take care of it.

It only checks for hashes at the beginning of a line, but I can't see them
popping up anywhere else unless they should be there.

Maybe this should go into 2.8.1 bugfixes? Definitely into 2.8.2. 



diff -cr lynx2-8-1/src/LYCookie.c lynx2.8.2dev.1.bri/src/LYCookie.c
*** lynx2-8-1/src/LYCookie.c    Fri Nov  6 06:29:41 1998
--- lynx2.8.2dev.1.bri/src/LYCookie.c   Sun Nov  8 19:06:18 1998
***************
*** 1909,1915 ****
  
        j = fgets(buf, sizeof(buf)-1, cookie_handle);
  
!       if((j == NULL) || (buf[0] == '\0' || buf[0] == '\n')) {
            continue;
        }
  
--- 1909,1915 ----
  
        j = fgets(buf, sizeof(buf)-1, cookie_handle);
  
!       if((j == NULL) || (buf[0] == '\0' || buf[0] == '\n' || buf[0] == '#')) {
            continue;
        }
  

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