On Mon, Jun 30, 2014, Karen Lewellen wrote: > > amazon is presently working on both problems. the 204 error, and the > fact amazon thinks cookies are off in lynx, even when cookies are > being allowed.
Per my other message just now, it's clear that the problem is that Amazon blocks multiple User-Agents -- based on what I saw with "links" versus Lynx with User-Agent set to "Lynx/2.8.8" versus Lynx with User-Agent set to "Mozilla/5.0", Amazon is not repeat *NOT* sending the cookies in the first place. They should be easily able to replicate the behavior if they try. I'm pretty sure they're also doing some other stuff to block specific User-Agent strings based on what happened with wget (that's probably what's causing the HTTP 204 -- the not-sending-cookies has existed for much longer, possibly years). > I am not sure where you got the idea that they will not forward this to > their technical team. My years in tech support -- if you don't get a bug number, you have no confirmation that it got forwarded. ;-) > My complaint is at the supervisor level, with one writing asking me to > test the site and report the specific time of my tests. did you call > here? 1-866-216-1072? or did you just do the computer chat which may > not reach a supervisor? I'm deaf, so I used chat -- I did manage to reach a supervisor, but that person was not particularly helpful. (I do have cochlear implants, so I can use the phone if I absolutely have to, but partly because I know lots of people who hate using the phone, I leverage my disability to improve non-phone access for everyone.) > My understanding is that this resulted from some drastic heartblead > measures. Interesting; if true, this is security theater of the highest order. Heartbleed was a *server-side* problem. I saw your other message, I'll try working up an e-mail directly to Amazon, but feel free to forward my messages to them. -- Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6 http://rule6.info/ <*> <*> <*> "I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my desk." --Robert Bloch _______________________________________________ Lynx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lynx-dev
