On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 07:03:50AM -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > one of my daily reads is the Toronto Star, > which introduced a free login system last year. > when i read it with Firefox, having long ago entered my username & password > & allowed its cookies, it comes up w/o hindrance every time. > when i go to use Lynx to grab an article to e-mail to someone, > having restarted Lynx at the beginning of my day's Linux session, > i have to re-enter my username & password & reply 'a' to 3 cookies. > i have 'persistent cookies' set in my Lynx config file. > > am i missing something or doesn't Lynx do what Firefox does ?
But there are also session cookies - perhaps Firefox is set to accept all cookies and lynx is not. (I don't recall the details, but lynx can be set to accept all valid cookies - it's only the malformed ones that it insists on prompting). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net _______________________________________________ Lynx-dev mailing list Lynx-dev@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lynx-dev
