since LP has been amusing himself cleaning up Lynx code, here's another bug which has long been waiting to be squished:
020315 Walter Ian Kaye wrote: > What makes a cookie invalid? How can this be fixed/prevented? > (And what difference does it make if it's "invalid" anyway?) --- somewhat obscure dialog shortened --- > Your board keeps wanting to set three invalid cookies, > which really impinges upon its usability and upon my nerves. > "Accept invalid cookie path=/cgi-bin/ikonboard/ikonboard.cgi > as a prefix of '/cgi-bin/ikonboard/ikonb..." That's as muchi > as shows on my screen, but ought to be enough to troubleshoot. --- end of dialog --- this has come up twice before, one time being me: see below. Lynx should honor the instruction ne`V'er to accept a cookie also in cases where the cookie is invalid: at present, it keeps asking. obviously, it's a simple oversight when cookie support was added long ago. it's a daily irritant for me reading the news via Yahoo/Reuter/AP. please could someone fix it? TD? anyone else? really, it should be easy. Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 02:55:49 -0500 From: Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: lynx-dev another small item for IZ ? if Ilya is still interested in fixing small deficiencies in Lynx, there's the bug i reported a few weeks ago: Lynx asks if you want to accept invalid cookies even when you've said you `neVer' want a cookie. eg story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=index&cid=514 , when you will be asked the question & even if you say `neVer' you will go on being asked it each time you follow a link to an individual news story. it's probably just a tiny omission buried somewhere in the code. Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 19:37:09 +0300 (EEST) From: Ari Moisio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: lynx-dev Accept invalid cookies Fr3dY 02.10.01: > Some websites, like yahoo webmail (that works under Lynx fine), > send invalid cookies prefixes and I have to press 'y' everytime. > I think an 'ACCEPT INVALID COOKIES' option should be nice. Bye! I think cookie_loose_invalid_domains setting in lynx.cfg may help. Something like COOKIE_LOOSE_INVALID_DOMAINS:.passport.com,.msn.com,.hotmail.msn.com You can see invalid domains when they are queried in interactive session. --- reply to previous message --- Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 12:38:28 -0400 From: Thomas Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: lynx-dev Accept invalid cookies there are some settings to allow invalid domains but it's possible that there are more varieties of invalid cookie syntax than you'd want. PW again: that's not the issue: if you say you NEVER want a cookie, you shouldn't be asked again by Lynx if you want to accept an invalid one. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT `-O----------O---' University of Toronto ; To UNSUBSCRIBE: Send "unsubscribe lynx-dev" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
