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Re: lynx-dev thoughts on cookie file w/multiple sessions
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Klaus Weide |
Subject: |
Re: lynx-dev thoughts on cookie file w/multiple sessions |
Date: |
Thu, 19 Nov 1998 10:45:42 -0600 (CST) |
On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, Leonid Pauzner wrote:
> > As things are presently:
>
> > Two sessions, A and B are running. Both load the same set of cookies
> > from COOKIE_FILE.
>
> > Session A gets a new cookie from some site, then exits, writing all
> > the original cookies and the new cookie to COOKIE_FILE.
>
> > Session B quits, overwriting COOKIE_FILE with all the original
> > cookies, but blowing away the new cookie that session A received.
>
> > So here's my thought -- prior to writing cookies in memory to COOKIE_FILE,
> > Lynx should *reread* COOKIE_FILE, ignoring any cookies that are already in
> > memory, but adding cookies from the file that are not in memory.
>
> > The only thing coming to mind so far that could be a problem here would be
> > getting two cookies with the same 'name' attribute from a server in two
> > different sessions (two unique identifiers from advertising sites?), in
> > which case the one which is written to COOKIE_FILE first (thus read into
> > memory in the other Lynx session, overwriting the existing one) will be
> > maintained, and the others dropped.
>
> Remote server may change cookie expiration date,
> which date should be correct from session A or from session B?
I suggest that merging cookies from two sessions while they are running
is a bad idea. Cookies are session identifiers, they are often used
to tell two sessions apart, right?
Klaus
- lynx-dev thoughts on cookie file w/multiple sessions, brian j. pardy, 1998/11/17
- Re: lynx-dev thoughts on cookie file w/multiple sessions, Leonid Pauzner, 1998/11/18
- Re: lynx-dev thoughts on cookie file w/multiple sessions, brian j. pardy, 1998/11/18
- Re: lynx-dev thoughts on cookie file w/multiple sessions, Klaus Weide, 1998/11/19
- Re: lynx-dev thoughts on cookie file w/multiple sessions, brian j. pardy, 1998/11/19
- Re: lynx-dev thoughts on cookie file w/multiple sessions, Eduardo Chappa L., 1998/11/19
- Re: lynx-dev thoughts on cookie file w/multiple sessions, Leonid Pauzner, 1998/11/20
- Re: lynx-dev thoughts on cookie file w/multiple sessions,
Klaus Weide <=