RE: LYNX-DEV Cookie Support

[David Hardy]

On Fri, 9 May 1997 10:05 Chibuike O. Nwaeze <address@hidden> wrote:

> All,
> 
> Does Lynx support HTTP cookies (or MagicCookies as they are sometimes 
> referred 
> to)??  Cookies are used to store and retrieve information on the client side 
> of 
> a Web connection.
> 
> --------------------------------------------------
> 
> Chibuike O. Nwaeze
> Harris DAGS
> email: address@hidden 
> Tel: (407)984-6819

Version 2.7 of Lynx has some support for cookies. The following is from the
changes file for version 2.7.1 though it also applies to 2.7:

| 01-16-97
| * Added "first pass" cookie support based on patches from Andrew Kuchling
|   (address@hidden).  Still needs work (see comments at top of LYCookie.c).
|   A SET_COOKIE symbol in userdefs.h and lynx.cfg determines whether cookie
|   support will be on or off by default, and the default can be toggled
|   via a -cookies command line switch.  When on, Set-Cookie headers invoke
|   confirmations with possible replies of 'Y'es or 'N'o for that cookie,
|   'A'lways, to accept all cookies from that domain, or ne'V'er to never
|   accept cookies from that domain.  The Cookie Jar can be examined via
|   the COOKIE_JAR keystroke command, mapped by default to Ctrl-K.  The
|   Cookie Jar, and any 'A'lways or ne'V'er settings, do not presently
|   outlast the Lynx session. - FM

Further enhancement of support for cookies has been added since this change was
made.

David

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