Re: lynx-dev cookies

[Serge MUNHOVEN]

On Mon, Jan 04, 1999 at 12:21:12PM -0800, Eduardo Chappa L. wrote:
 >  Hello,
 >  
 >    So there I was navigating in the web, when I went to 
 >  
 >     http://www.atptour.com/redir/viplounge/newsletter
 >  
 >  It asked me about a cookie, so I answered Always, and after a few seconds
 >  I had to choose a frame to open, so I choose "content", but it sent me the
 >  message:
 >  
 >   No cookie.
 >     To access this site your browser must be accepting cookies.
 >     If this problem persists, please consult our [1]trouble shooter
 >     or send an e-mail to the [2]Viplounge Manager.
 >  
 >  So I followed link #1, and in the next page I followed again link #1, then
 >  link #2, and it does not matter which link I followed afterwards, I could
 >  not access the site, even in the case that I answered every question to
 >  continue the troubleshooting I could not access. Should I choose link #2
 >  above ?
 >  
 >    Using  Lynx Version 2.8rel.2 and uname -a says OSF1 goedel3 V4.0 878
 >  alpha.
 >  
 >    Thanks, have a nice day.
 >  
 >  Eduardo
 >  http://www.math.washington.edu/~chappa/personal.html
 >  
 >  
Greetings

It seems that this is yet another site falsely deducing potential cookie
support from the User-Agent header before trying them anyway. If you set it
e.g. to "Mozilla/4.05 [en] (L.y.n.x.2.8.1)" (in the options menu or with the
-useragent commandline option) they will happily serve you a persistent cookie
for Domain=.atptour.com and let you in. Note that oddly enough, once you've
got that cookie, there seems to be no need to continue masquerading any longer:
enjoy being yourself again and cruising their framesets ...
I did not go on very far. So good luck to those who will :-)

Best wishes to all of you.
(Well you DID fill my mailbox while away from the net; I'm just done catching
up. Anyway nice to know that Lynx is alive and fun :-)

 - Serge