Re: [Lynx-dev] stay logged in

[dan d.]

One approach I have used for sometime is to save a cookies file and do a copy 
overr to the lynx cookie file in .profile.

On Thu, 7 Jan 2021, Thorsten Glaser wrote:

> Karen Lewellen dixit:
>
> > Oh I thought of another, my archiveofourown account is tied to my cookie in 
> > my
> > lynx_cookies file.  I am presented with my account information as a result,
> > without having to log in again,  based on that cookie.
>
> Yes, exactly.
>
> AO3 is a bit of a problem recently: when that cookie expires, I need to
> login using Firefox, then extract the cookies from its opaque store and
> transplant it to Lynx. I???ve scripted such a solution for Firefox 45, it
> doesn???t work with current Firefox though because they broke everything,
> in an incompatible way, again. This is annoying and websites who assume
> that users can (and want to) use e.g. Firefox are??? narrow-minded. ???
>
> bye,
> //mirabilos
>

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