Hi all, At tonight's meeting, I mentioned that there are patches for the links text-only browser which both fix problems with redirects and add cookie functionality. Below are two posts to the links mailing list which detail how to apply the patches to the latest source code release. You can obtain the latest release (0.96) at http://links.sourceforge.net and the patches at http://pasky.ji.cz/~pasky/dev/links I found that when applying the referrer-0.96.patch and the true-referer-0.96.patch, I had to specify patch -p1 < ..., but the cookie patch works without the -p1 parameter. I sent an email Petr telling him, and he was puzzled 'cause it works with -p1 on *his* system. Strange. Don't forget to do "cd intl; ./syncintl" after applying the referrer patches, otherwise links won't compile. Later! PS: I find the redirect from https to http to be broken. For example, for those RedHat users out there, try logging into http://www.redhat.com/network . The browser just keeps asking to follow a redirect forever. When you press cancel, the site complains about improper cookie support. Another example is http://mail.yahoo.com, and click the "Secure" link. Does anyone out there know why this is happening? -- R. Douglas Barbieri [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.dooglio.net (Please don't laugh at my pathetic first try with the Gimp--go to my site, and you'll know what I mean...) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2001 20:31:18 +0200 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Petr Kulhavy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mikulas Patocka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [links-list] HTTP Referer - patch Hello, because there are sites, which strictly relies on correct value of HTTP_REFERER (that means page which referred you there), i decided to extend the referer patch. This patch: - adds czech translation for all the options ;-) - adds REFERER_TRUE, which adds classic Referer functionality - fixes REFERER_SAME_URL so that it returns always an absolute path. It breaks nothing and some broken sites rely on it. This patch _needs_ the old referer patch to be applied before! You need to do cd intl; ./syncintl; after applying the patch. If you will get strange problems during compilation, go into Makefile, find config.status and $(srcdir)/configure dependencies and remove $(CONFIG_STATUS_DEPENDENCIES) respectively $(CONFIGURE_DEPENDENCIES) from there. This patch was done against links-lua, but should apply to classic links with some fuzz as well hopefully. Both old and new patches may be found at http://pasky.ji.cz/~pasky/dev/links Good luck! :) --- and --- Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 07:25:43 +0200 From: Petr Baudis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [links-list] [PATCH] Cookies expiration and saving Hello, I wrote two simple patches for cookies. First one adds support for cookies expiration, the second one adds support for saving of cookies (it needs the first one to be applied previously). Both patches are available at http://pasky.ji.cz/~pasky/dev/links/ Regards, -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis
