Re: lynx-dev cookies

[Klaus Weide]

On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, wilfred mrosla wrote:

>   Recently I have been getting realtime quotes with the following
> script
> 
>    #!/bin/bash
>    n=$1
>    lynx -auth=tvmanx:willie -dump "http://quotes.freerealtime.com/rt/
>    frt/quotes?symbol=$1&type=1">/usr/local/net/$1.rt
> 
> 
> This worked fine until they sent back the message:
>    quotes.freerealtime.com cookie: FRT=R=/rt/frt quotes allow? 
> (Y/N/Always/neVer)
> 
> I have to manually answer this to proceed.

You should not get a prompt like that with -dump.  I have never seen
this happen...

See recent threads in the lynx-dev archives (look for "-dump"
and "-post_data").

> Could you tell me what my script need to look like to overcome
> this problem

You should not need anything but a recent version of lynx and cookies
turned on.  You didn't tell us what version you are using.


   Klaus