Re: [Lynx-dev] a cookie question?

[Karen Lewellen]

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, address@hidden 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 change their cookie format and may fail to handle outdated cookies,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
>
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