050422 Morten Bo Johansen wrote: > Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 ? > I just subscribed to the Toronto Star, and it works fine for me. > I suspect that you have not set COOKIE_FILE: > .h2 COOKIE_FILE > # COOKIE_FILE is the default file from which persistent cookies are read > # at startup (if the file exists), if Lynx was compiled with > # USE_PERSISTENT_COOKIES and the PERSISTENT_COOKIES option is enabled. > # The cookie file can also be specified in .lynxrc or on the command line. > # COOKIE_FILE:~/.lynx_cookies
i do have the cookie file uncommented in lynx.cfg , but i had not updated the little script i use when compiling a new Lynx & on inspecting it see that it uses --disable-persistent-cookies . so i'll recompile Lynx & see what happens. thanx to everyone for the prompt responses. BTW there's a way to tell Lynx not to accept cookies at all, but can you tell it positively always to accept from a particular site ? i don't want simply to accept all cookies from everywhere, but i am willing to accept all cookies from the Toronto Star site(s). Firefox does this & allows inspection & editing of the list of sites: is this something else i'm overlooking in Lynx or is it not there ? -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT `-O----------O---' University of Toronto _______________________________________________ Lynx-dev mailing list Lynx-dev@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lynx-dev