Re: [Lynx-dev] a cookie question?
As explained about the amazon error, there were literary no fields into which to type log in information at all. Needless to say the amazon cookies stay now. I also understand cookies are added at the bottom. Kare On Thu, 31 Jan 2019, russellb...@gmail.com wrote: Quoth Karen Lewellen: 'If I remove the cookies for amazon.com, as the site is currently configured and then try to log in again using lynx I am presented with a page that has no fields for my username and password. Instead there are links for things that normally appear at the bottom of their log in page.' A site that allows logging in, if it keeps track of logged-in-ness by looking at cookies, will require logging in if it doesn't find a cookie. This happens to me at 'The Lancet'. I find the login page Quoth Karen Lewellen: ' Further one sometimes gets told to allow cookies, but if I edit my .lynx-cookies file, amazon adds more.' A site that uses cookies will if it can, no matter how many times one deletes them. Quoth Karen Lewellen: 'There is a Toronto radio station who would fail to find their cookie if the file is too large.' lynx provides the cookie; sites don't get to see the whole cookie file; they can't know how large it is. Quoth Karen Lewellen: 'If I am not careful I can end up with hundreds and hundreds of cookies in this file.' I have 385 today with no trouble. I care not. russell bell ___ Lynx-dev mailing list Lynx-dev@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lynx-dev ___ Lynx-dev mailing list Lynx-dev@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lynx-dev
Re: [Lynx-dev] a cookie question?
Quoth Karen Lewellen: 'If I remove the cookies for amazon.com, as the site is currently configured and then try to log in again using lynx I am presented with a page that has no fields for my username and password. Instead there are links for things that normally appear at the bottom of their log in page.' A site that allows logging in, if it keeps track of logged-in-ness by looking at cookies, will require logging in if it doesn't find a cookie. This happens to me at 'The Lancet'. I find the login page Quoth Karen Lewellen: ' Further one sometimes gets told to allow cookies, but if I edit my .lynx-cookies file, amazon adds more.' A site that uses cookies will if it can, no matter how many times one deletes them. Quoth Karen Lewellen: 'There is a Toronto radio station who would fail to find their cookie if the file is too large.' lynx provides the cookie; sites don't get to see the whole cookie file; they can't know how large it is. Quoth Karen Lewellen: 'If I am not careful I can end up with hundreds and hundreds of cookies in this file.' I have 385 today with no trouble. I care not. russell bell ___ Lynx-dev mailing list Lynx-dev@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lynx-dev
Re: [Lynx-dev] a cookie question?
Hi, Will answer your final question . If I remove the cookies for amazon.com, as the site is currently configured and then try to log in again using lynx I am presented with a page that has no fields for my username and password. Instead there are links for things that normally appear at the bottom of their log in page. Further one sometimes gets told to allow cookies, but if I edit my .lynx-cookies file, amazon adds more. There is a Toronto radio station who would fail to find their cookie if the file is too large. If I am not careful I can end up with hundreds and hundreds of cookies in this file. Karen On Tue, 29 Jan 2019, russellb...@gmail.com wrote: Quoth Karen Lewellen: 'When lynx adds a cookie to the.lynx_cookies file, does it place it at the top or the end?' Bottom. Updated cookies retain their original position. Quoth Karen Lewellen: 'I ask because in some cases I may have several cookies for the same service in this file, with my wondering if all are needful.' Many domains create more than 1 cookie, used for different purposes. Quoth Karen Lewellen: ' I know from experience that if the file gets too large some services can no longer find their cookie.' This has never happened to me. I can believe that domains change their cookie format and may fail to handle outdated cookies, but don't know that this has ever happened to me. Quoth Karen Lewellen: 'random removal can create a disaster.' What kind of disaster? I've never had a problem removing cookies. NewYorker creates 2, stops me from seeing more than 4 articles until I remove the cookies, so I remove them. You can keep a backup. russell bell ___ Lynx-dev mailing list Lynx-dev@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lynx-dev ___ Lynx-dev mailing list Lynx-dev@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lynx-dev
