On Wed, Mar 29, 2000, Klaus Weide wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, brian j pardy wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 29, 2000, Klaus Weide wrote:
> > > [-source* cookies broken]
> >
> > I was never able to trace things back far enough to figure out the
> > best way to do it. I think what I had done before would be enough to
> > save cookies in "most cases", but it looks like a case of the last 10%
> > of the work taking forever, to me. I have no idea where to go from
> > here -- I don't know the rest of the internals well enough.
>
> Well, if the best way is too complicated (and it seems so, at least
> it would take time for testing), we can still use the "easy way out"
> way. Accept that HTFWriter_free does exit_immediately(0); but
> explicitly call LYStoreCookies() right before that.
> Probably with the same #ifdef/if() tests as in LYMain.c, i.e.
> code near end of HTFWriter_free should look like this:
>
> if (dump_output_immediately) {
> if (me->anchor->FileCache)
> remove(me->anchor->FileCache);
> FREE(me);
> #ifdef EXP_PERSISTENT_COOKIES
> /*
> * We want to save cookies picked up when in source
> * mode. ...
> */
> if (persistent_cookies)
> LYStoreCookies(LYCookieSaveFile);
> #endif /* EXP_PERSISTENT_COOKIES */
> exit_immediately(0);
> }
>
> I don't anticipate any problems (wasn't this your first approach?),
> I still dislike the exit_immediately(0) drom deep inside the
> stream, but cookie saving with -source should work.
>
> Otherwise we'd release lynx with new COOKIE_SAVE_FILE option that
> some people would have to change their lynx.cfg to, only to discover
> that it still doesn't act as promised.
I think that should take care of it. I think I originally had it
HTFWriter_free returning and doing the LYStoreCookies after it if in
-source mode.
I'll grab the latest tarball and see what happens.
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