Cookies in lynx

[Anita Lewis]

On Wed, 03 Apr 2002 17:53:46 -0800, David Aikema wrote:
> On April 3, 2002 03:34 pm, Anita Lewis wrote:
> 
>> I think you are talking about persistent cookies.  First lynx has to have
>> that compiled in.  I got it and compiled it, because simply setting things
>> in .lynx.cfg did not work.  After compiling it with persistent cookies, it
>> saved them.
> 
> Yup, those would be what I was refering to.
> 
> The problem with all of this though is that I have no control over any of the 
> software on the machine (it's a solaris box at university) and they don't 
> allow us to add software to the machine.
> 
> Thus, unfortunately I am unable to rebuild lynx (just noticed that this 
> client also doesn't support https... yipes!).  Do I really have to ssh into 
> my home system just to be able to use a semi-recent/decent copy of lynx?
> 
> David Aikema

I guess you already tried putting those two entries in your ~/.lynx.cfg:

COOKIE_FILE:~/.lynx_cookies

PERSISTENT_COOKIES:TRUE

If it doesn't work, I think all you can do is to ask them to recompile it
with that feature. The worst that can happen is that they say no.

Anita
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