Re: [Lynx-dev] Re: Are Cookies Working Correctly in Lynx 2.8?

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, 4 Mar 2011, Owen Leibman wrote:

> Resending this message. I have followed this mailing list since I sent 
> it, and rare indeed has been the message which has not received a reply. 
> This message would seem to be the exception. Perhaps I just sent it a 
> bad time, or perhaps it was because I erroneously specified 2.8 and 2.7 
> instead of 2.8..8 and 2.8.7. At the time I wrote the message, the lynx 
> version which seemed not to be handling cookies correctly was 
> 2.8.8dev.3. I just tried the newest version 2.8.8dev.8 (dated Jan. 10, 
> 2011), and it handles cookies in the same manner as 2.8.8dev.3, i.e. it 
> associates the cookie (incorrectly in my opinion) with a specific file 
> name rather than directory name. Version 2.8.7 handles cookies as I 
> expect it should (and as all other browsers which I've tested do), 
> associating the cookie with the directory name rather than a specific 
> file name.

This is more information (the file-name vs directory name).

Perhaps it's related to my 2.8.8dev.2 change for Debian #460108.
(Just looking at the changelog, I don't see any other interesting
cookie changes since 2.8.7).

> --- On Wed, 8/25/10, Owen Leibman <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > From: Owen Leibman <address@hidden>
> > Subject: Are Cookies Working Correctly in Lynx 2.8?
> > To: address@hidden
> > Date: Wednesday, August 25, 2010, 10:35 PM
> > Cookies don???t seem to be working as
> > I would expect for lynx-cur (2.8.something) on ubuntu
> > (10.4). The problem is demonstrated in the attached cookie
> > file ??? the complete file name which created the cookie is
> > stored rather than the directory, so other pages in that
> > directory do not see the cookie. After noticing this
> > problem, I did a complete build from source for 2.8.*, and
> > saw the same problem. When I did a complete build from
> > source for 2.7.*, there was no longer a problem ??? cookies
> > behaved as I expected. The first line of the cookies file
> > shows a 2.8 cookie incorrectly stored (from localhost); the
> > next 5 show a 2.7 cookie correctly stored; the final line
> > shows a 2.8 cookie incorrectly stored (from the web, just in
> > case there was something special about localhost which
> > triggered the error). I apologize for being a bit vague
> > about the release numbers; my daughter has taken that PC
> > away to school with her, so I don???t have immediate access
> > to it,
> >  but can get more exact details if needed.

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