Cookies in lynx

[David Aikema]

On April 3, 2002 10:53 am, Net Llama wrote:
> --- David Aikema <dhaikema at sfu.ca> wrote:
> > Any idea how to get lynx to save cookies.  The further I've gotten is
> > figuring out how to specify a file to load cookies from, but
> > unfortunately
> > that option doesn't save any new or modified cookies to that file.
>
> What do you mean by 'save'?  The -accept_all_cookies option allows it to
> accept all cookies.  -cookie_file=FILENAME lets you specify a file to
> use to store cookies.  All of this is from the man page for lynx.

I had read the man page and was attempting to use:
lynx -accept_all_cookies -cookie_file=~/.cookies

But, after using this command and going to a website that should give me a 
cookie, the size of my cookie file is still 0 bytes upon exiting lynx.
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8: dhaikema_fraser% ls -l .cookies
-rw-------   1 dhaikema users          0 Feb  8 14:39 .cookies
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David Aikema