Re: LYNX-DEV quote.yahoo.com, and cookies in general

[Marcus]

yes remember lynx does support cookies in a session but not after you
quit a session!  On Mon, 1 Dec 1997, Larry W. Virden, x2487 wrote:

> Matt, sorry I was away from the list for a few days - I might have been
> able to save you some grief.
> 
> 
> > I don't know!  I really think there's some problem on either end that is
> > *not* cookie related.  I sent feedback regarding the inability to log in 
> > with
> > Lynx and that I thought I was given an incorrect error message since Lynx
> > does support cookies... 
> 
> > Speaking of supporting cookies, is there some really really complex reason
> > why Lynx doesn't support cookies across sessions?  Especially after 
> > reading "Learning Perl" and "CGI Programming on the World Wide Web", saving
> > the cookies out and reading them back in would seem to be a cinch in Perl.
> 
> Interestingly enough, I suspect that the answer to your first problem is
> in your second question.  When you sign up for a yahoo account, you get
> a login cookie.  Each future access to the yahoo login looks for that
> cookie.  But since lynx doesn't currently support persistent cookies (aka
> the cookie jar) yahoo doesn't find it, and thus sends you off to the page
> telling you why your browser needs to support cookies.  They need to update
> that page to indicate that your browser needs to support the SAVING of
> cookies between sessions...
> 
> -- 
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