Re: lynx-dev Bug#35523: lynx: cookie handling broken with non-printable characters (fwd)

[Chris Lawrence]

On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Klaus Weide wrote:
> It just isn't possible to send a cookie like the following with HTTP:
> 
>     Set-Cookie: bunny="I3\012."
>     (where \012 is LF)
> 
> Either the person reporting this misunderstands what's going on, or
> is leaving out some information.

It may be a literal \012.  I need to take a look at the raw HTTP
datastream from the CGI script, however.

> There may be problems (still present in lynx 2.8.2dev.N) related to the
> dropping of surrounding quotes when persistent cookies are stored, but
> we should get a better bug report.

I think that's the issue here.  My trace dump from Lynx shows the quotes
being sent during the same session but dropped after a quit and restart.
The quotes aren't being put in the .lynx_cookies file.


Chris
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