Re: [Lynx-dev] Need to Store Cookies but Nothing Works.

[Martin McCormick]

        Thanks to all who answered. It turns out I don't need to
retain the cookie but instead, I added the domain to .lynxrc
which is much better security-wise.

        As with all good learning experiences, I found out that
the lynx configuration is much more flexible by setting the
enviroment variable for including one's local lynx.cfg file in to
the system version of that file, something which I either forgot
sometime in the roughly twenty-odd years I have been using lynx
or missed when this feature was included at 8.1 and expanded with
8.2.

        Thanks to both of you for helping me get more out of lynx
than I was expecting.

Martin McCormick

Stefan Caunter <address@hidden> writes:
> see
> 
> http://lynx.invisible-island.net/lynx2.8.8/breakout/docs/README.cookies
> 
> although setting accept all in [O]ptions (and saving) has worked fine for 
> me for years
> 
> -stefan
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> > On May 30, 2017, at 09:44, Brian Pardy <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > Hello Martin,
> >
> >
> >> On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 8:45 AM, Martin McCormick 
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> >>         After a web search using linux, lynx and cookies, I found
> >> documentation on using lynx which advised to put the following
> >> lines either in lynx.cfg or ~/.lynxrc:
> >>
> >> ACCEPT_ALL_COOKIES:TRUE
> >>      SET_COOKIES:TRUE
> >>      PERSISTENT_COOKIES:TRUE
> >>      COOKIE_FILE:.lynx_cookies
> >>
> >> That last line shouldn't be necessary as all but the DOS version
> >> of lynx are supposed to use ~/.lynx_cookies by default.
> >>
> >>         A weather site started this quest when it began sending a
> >> cookie every time one accesses it which now means an extra step
> >> just to check conditions. I receive:
> >>
> >> mobile.wunderground.com cookie: P=FAVS:1|WXSN:1|PWSOB Allow? 
> (Y/N/Always/neVer)
> >>
> >>         I type a and it works fine but nothing is stored so next
> >> time I run it, it's the same drill again. I tried putting these
> >> lines in ~/.lynxrc, ~/.lynx.cfg and both files. They might as
> >> well be comments for the effect they had.
> >>
> >>         This is the version of lynx one gets if one adds lynx to
> >> Debian jessie using apt-get. [...]
> >
> >
> > The lynx.cfg and .lynxrc files do not use the same syntax. The 
> "ACCEPT_ALL_COOKIES:TRUE" syntax you've listed works for lynx.cfg (which 
> Debian's release likely looks for in /etc/lynx.cfg or possibly 
> /etc/lynx/lynx.cfg -- it should not search your home directory for the 
> lynx.cfg file unless you have set the LYNX_CFG environment variable to 
> tell it to do so), but that syntax does not work for ~/.lynxrc.  Please 
> try with the following line in your ~/.lynxrc:
> >
> > accept_all_cookies=on
> >
> > Since you already receive a prompt to accept cookies, you shouldn't 
> need to additionally set the set_cookies option, you already have cookie 
> processing enabled. Debian probably also has persistent cookies enabled 
> by default so you shouldn't need to set that or the cookie_file either.
> >
> > I believe this will work for you, but I'd like to suggest some 
> potentially better options too -- if you use Lynx frequently in other 
> situations where you do want a prompt to accept or reject cookies, then I 
> suggest adding the "--accept-all-cookies" flag on the command line when 
> invoking Lynx to access mobile.wunderground.com (possibly in a shell 
> alias or a script that parses the weather output).  Alternatively you 
> could set "cookie_accept_domains=.wunderground.com" in your .lynxrc, as a 
> way to avoid globally accepting all cookies but avoiding prompts for this 
> one specific domain.
> >
> > -Brian
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