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Re: lynx-dev Dump_Output_Immediately / Cookie bug not completely fixe
From: |
Klaus Weide |
Subject: |
Re: lynx-dev Dump_Output_Immediately / Cookie bug not completely fixed (AFAIK) |
Date: |
Thu, 17 Dec 1998 12:15:04 -0600 (CST) |
On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, Leonid Pauzner wrote:
> 17-Dec-98 06:04 Klaus Weide wrote:
> > For some of those circumstances, NOT writing the cookie file may actually
> > be more appropriate than writing it. For example with -mime_header,
> > neither HTTP headers nor META tags are parsed, so there is no possible
> > way that cookies can be set/changed/discarded by Set-Cookie headers.
> > The only possible (significant) effect on the contents of the cookie
> > file could be removal of expired cookies.
>
> Well, the removal or changing the expiration date.
> Plain expiration check will be done by the next HTTP request anyway.
I don't understand what you mean - if we don't parse any Set-Cookie*
headers, then the expiration date cannot change, right?
(I was talking about -mime_header; so there never is a next HTTP request
in the same lynx invocation.)
Klaus