[Techtalk] Re: lynx cookies

[Raven Alder]

Heya --

Quoth Ricky Buchanan (Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 06:20:10AM +1100):
> > 	The latest available is v2.8.4.  But if you compile your own
> > Lynx with the --enable-persistent-cookies flag, then unexpired cookies
> > will be stored between sessions in the filename set with the COOKIE_FILE
> > option in your .lynxrc.
> 
> How do I know if its compiled with this flag?  It seems to OFFER all the
> cookies and my COOKIE_FILE contains this:
> 
> .amazon.com	TRUE	/	FALSE	2082787201	ubid-main	077-1968602-5668506
> .amazon.com	TRUE	/	FALSE	2082787201	x-main	xOfjZlDvSvPfQUEqnilHT27zpj1k4npk
> .egroups.com	TRUE	/	FALSE	1010707199	userbirthyear	119750103
> .altavista.com	TRUE	/	FALSE	1388491200	AV_USERKEY	AVSe05c03627d0000790010ac0004be8
> www.livejournal.com	FALSE	/	FALSE	1002893061	BMLSESSION	xdgszesprjzmgmbrvljdkyvfyz
> 
> etc etc etc lots snipped :)
> 
> 
> Anyway, so how come if things are *in* the cookies file, and cookies
> seem to be turned *on*, they never seem to get used?

	Hm.  I honestly don't know how to tell if it's been compiled
with that flag or not... perhaps a better programmer than I will chime
in with the answer.  If it were my system, I'd try recompiling lynx and
making sure that I did it with that flag on.   That alone might
change/fix your problem -- apparantly persistent cookies is not the
default.

(http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/pipermail/linux-users/2002-April/001315.html)

	If you do recompile and that doesn't fix your problem, could you
try grabbing a packet capture of the session so we can see exactly
what's going on in that HTTP transaction?

Cheers,
Raven