Re: lynx-dev persistent cookies experimental feature?

[brian j. pardy]

Larry W. Virden wrote:
> I don't see any info in the help files or man page or lynx.cfg which
> describes how to _use_ the persistent cookies.  Or does it just 'happen'?
> And if so, where do the cookies get saved?

As I'm reading the code now, it doesn't look like anything specifically
needs to be done to use the cookies once they have been saved into the
cookiefile. In the current code, cookies are saved to a file called,
offly enough, "cookies" in the current directory. The patch I submitted
(yesterday? two days ago?) adds a "cookie_file" option to the commandline,
lynxrc, and lynx.cfg.

One thing I notice about this is that cookies do not appear to be written
to a file until LYHandleCookies() is called, which seems to only be called
when hitting ^K and going into the cookiejar page.

AFAICT, cookies are *not* stored unless you hit ^K.

This should probably be changed. I'm not quite sure where we want to put
it, so I didn't change it in my patch.


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