Re: lynx-dev Re: Cookie trace messages

[Leonid Pauzner]

>> I make some cleanup (below), but while inspecting a trace I was surprized
>> enough: I have a persistent cookie which signed as expired in 1970
>> but dev.9  load/store it nicely every session (should delete, right?).

>>         5:0x8110f9c:0xbfffe6e7:[ASPSESSIONIDGQQGQQYP]

>> expires:        Thu Jan  1 03:00:00 1970

> This is a session cookie.  The date is actually the Unix epoch
> in your timezone; i.e. it is 0 in the internal representation of
> Unix times (00:00:00 UTC Jan 1 1970).

This cookie was loaded from a persistent cookie-file,
they should not been stored but they does (dev.9)

> Session cookies, like this one from Microsoft's Active Server Pages
> product, are relatively benign - they are used for things like
> shopping carts, not for constructing marketing profiles on individuals.
> They should never be stored in a permanent cookies file.