On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, David Combs wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 07:57:47AM -0800, Doug Kaufman wrote:
> > a previous cookie that might be corrupted. Check your cookie jar
> > (CTRL-K) and delete any previous cookies from this site, then try
> > again.
>
> 1: First I tried it at lynx start-up, on my bookmarks file.
>
> I got "cookie jar is empty".
>
> Which confused me, because I had just been looking at
> my .lynx_cookies, which was anything BUT empty.
>
> What it MIGHT have said (as I learned by experimentation)
> is something like:
>
> cookie jar has nothing FOR THIS DOMAIN, "<theDomainName>"
> --
>
> 2: (Would "site" be equivalent to "domain"?)
>
> I just looked at the (local 2.8.2) users guide (why not just
> call it the "manual" -- much easier to type in, takes less
> room on the line, ...), and saw no DEFINITION of "domain".
This sounds like something wrong with your setup. What you see in the
cookie jar shouldn't depend on the recent links that you visisted. Do
you have COOKIE_FILE and COOKIE_SAVE_FILE both pointing to the same
file?
> 3: Then, I went to amazon (which has cookies in my "jar" --
> maybe that word ("jar") should be explained somewhere "right now",
A coookie jar is a ceramic crock in which (edible) cookies are kept.
Similarly, electronic cookies are also "eaten" or "gobbled" when they
disappear. This follows a long tradition of tongue-in-cheek naming
(e.g., archie and veronica were named after comic book characters,
foo.bar from the acronym fubar (f* up beyond all recognition)) going
back many years. I presume that the joke may be harder to follow if
English is not your native tongue, or if the refence is to something
localized to one country.
Doug
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