Re: lynx-dev Cookies broken with -source?

[Keith Doyle]

>> However, if I add -source to the invocation, Lynx does not
>> send the cookies in the header.  [...]
>
>That should work now as expected in the development code from
><http://sol.slcc.edu/lynx/current/>.  (Except that in some of
>the non-interactive modes the cookie file may not get updated
>at the end of the "session" - maybe a feature instead of a
>bug.)

I don't think that will be a problem for me, as the cookie
setting is occurring during a previous session in my case.

>> 
>> And of course that brings up a more general issue-- is it
>> possible to add some custom header info into a Lynx generated
>> header-- beyond the usual get and post data?
>
>No - unless you change the code, of course.  If you want to
>add arbitrary headers, something linke junkbuster may be more
>appropriate.

Well, if the cookie stuff above works in the latest
version, hopefully I'll never have a need to jam custom junk 
into the header-- it just occurred to me that would be one
way to work around the problem, and that it might be useful
elsewhere.  I have hacked junkbuster to do other stuff (a
snarf-like program before I discovered snarf or that lynx
had -source), so I could probably do something there but
again that was a program that had problems with hanging
periodically on a GET.

>> [...]  I've used other
>> stand alone utilities such as snarf and the like, but
>> I happen to like how Lynx handles its timeouts better 
>> than those other things when a "get" seems to hang, which
>> happens often enough.  And Lynx handles redirects far
>> better.
>
>Interesting - I didn't know lynx was better at these things.

snarf can't handle a lot of redirects-- it handles some, but
reports some kind of "looping redirect" error with a lot of
others, ones that Lynx has no problems with.  And I've
seen snarf hang in effect forever, on certain basic
gets.  I haven't seen Lynx do that yet, though can't say
that it isn't possible.. 

All in all, I think Lynx is a great program and even when
I'm not doing automated web stuff, it is my first browser
choice for all but the most media intense stuff which
I rarely do anyway.  All of you guys hard work is
well appreciated here.


Thanks,

Keith Doyle
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