Re: lynx-dev Re: persistent cookies - needs changes

[Klaus Weide]

On Wed, 9 Dec 1998, brian j. pardy wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Dec 1998, Klaus Weide wrote:
> > That is about a cookie's past; as for the future, i.e. whether it _will be_
> > written to the persistent file, that should be implied by the other
> > per-cookie info which is already displayed (expires, discard) -- if the
> > appropriate additional checks are added in LYStoreCookies (see one of
> > my other messages, <URL: 
> > http://www.flora.org/lynx-dev/html/month1298/msg00232.html>).
> 
> I saw that post, and think you're right that it's something that needs to
> be looked at.  Offhand, I think there is something in store_cookie that
> loops through the cookie list, looking for expired cookies, but I don't
> remember if this is related.

Yes, expired cookies are removed there, but there should be additional
checks at the time of writing.  Cookies may have expired since the
last time store_cookie was done.  "discard" should also be checked.

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Thanks for the references,

   Klaus