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Re: lynx-dev [dev17 patch] cookie options documentation


From: mattack
Subject: Re: lynx-dev [dev17 patch] cookie options documentation
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 14:19:45 -0800 (PST)

On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, Klaus Weide wrote:
>If the date is in the past but nothing else is wrong, there's nothing
>"illegal" about it.  It's a perfectly valid way for *removing* a cookie
>that the browser has (or might have): new cookie supersedes old one, then
>expiration is checked and new cookie fails check, so it is removed too.
>
>I don't know whether that cookie in the Schwab case is being used for 
>this purpose or whether its expiration date is actually an error.  Are
>you sure (or can you guess) that that cookie is actually one that is
>*supposed to* remain set?

No, I don't know..  all I know is that I can log on with IE (4.5 on MacOS), 
and I can no longer log on with Lynx.

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