Re: [lynx-dev] handling an internal server error (I think)

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 06:53:04PM -0400, William December Starr wrote:
> On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 12:08:51PM -0400, William December Starr wrote:
> 
> > Wait a minute. something weird just happened -- I renamed my
> > .lynx_cookies file to something else and tried the URL and
> > everything worked properly.  Then I renamed it back, tried again,
> > and got the usual glitch.  Weird.
> 
> After more confused muddling about, I'm no clearer on what's going
> on.  *Apparently* something in the cookie that zap2it set when I
> registered causes it to handle requests from me differently
> than those from outsiders, or something.
> 
> In any event, this doesn't look to be a Lynx problem after all.  I
> think.  But if anyone wants to play around with it anyway, feel free.
> 
> (By the way, a query about the .lynx_cookies file -- if there are
> multiple cookies in there for a single site, which one gets used?
> The topmost one?)

As I read the code, it will provide anything that matches the selection
criteria.  The trace shows what actually happens.  (Aside from a few
very recent comments, no one's reported that lynx stores duplicate
cookies, so it might be nice to get more information to verify this).

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