Re: [Lynx-dev] Finally got cookie file to save (2.8.7rel.1)

[Walter Ian Kaye]

At 07:48 p -0500 11/16/2011, Thomas Dickey didst inscribe upon an
electronic papyrus:

> On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 04:09:41PM -0700, Walter Ian Kaye wrote:
> > >  was PERSISTENT_COOKIES set?
> > >  (just checking - I don't see anything obviously incorrect in the logic).
> >
> >
> >  Yup, unless there's some invisible character mucking it up.
>
> that's not likely (though it's also possible to see all of the configured
> values using -trace-mask and -trace).

Going through the options screen links, everything looks right.


>  > BTW, now each time I launch Lynx and go to Google, it says unexpected 
> >  server disconnect and it doesn't remember me from the previous session; I
> >  have to log in again each time.
> >
> >  So maybe the problem is with the persistent cookies setting?
> >  Was there a bug fixed in a later version?
>
> I made a couple of cookie changes for Debian #460108, as well as another:

Doesn't seem to apply.


I recently moved my website from Verio to another host, and I copied
my old .lynx_cookies file to reuse on the new host. Yet when I'm in
Lynx and hit ^K, it tells me the cookie jar is empty. The cookie file
is 8K; it's not empty.

What's going on?