Re: [Lynx-dev] lynx and amazon?

[Jude DaShiell]

Yes, amazon.com did leave a cookie in ~/.lynx_cookies
At this point I shouldn't take this testing any further though I could
throw eww firefox edbrowse and chrome at it to find out if any of them
will play the challenge.  If I were to do this and fail in every
instance I'd conclude amazon isn't Linux-Friendly in addition to being
less than blind-friendly.

On Mon, 26 Aug 2019, Karen Lewellen wrote:

> Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2019 15:37:20
> From: Karen Lewellen <address@hidden>
> To: Jude DaShiell <address@hidden>
> Cc: "address@hidden" <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: [Lynx-dev] lynx and amazon?
>
> ..which is why I would appreciate a test.
> When I visit www.amazon.com
> A cookie is accepted right away.  However when  I sign in, say after choosing
> proceed to checkout two things happen.
> first, again after the cookie is allowed I reach a page that says
> Important message!  To better protect your account please reenter your
> password and type the characters in the image below..which  for me is not an
> option.
> Still, even if Amazon staff provide something for that verification field, or
> if I leave the field blank, I get a  request to allow cookies message.
> In fact I cannot go forward   until I turn on what is already turned on.
> So I am wanting to discover if this error might be unique to  the lynx setup
> at shellworld, or if this is something Amazon is doing where Lynx is concerned
> in general.
>
>
>
> On Mon, 26 Aug 2019, Jude DaShiell wrote:
>
> > If the cookie complaint happens at login amazon expects a cookie from
> > you.  If it only happens during checkout, I don't know what's
> > happening.  I suspect based on your browser amazon thinks you're not
> > doing cookie transactions with it and has that hard coded somewhere.
> >
> > Aug 2019, Karen Lewellen wrote:
> >
> >> Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2019 21:03:08
> >> From: Karen Lewellen <address@hidden>
> >> To: "address@hidden" <address@hidden>
> >> Subject: [Lynx-dev] lynx and amazon?
> >>
> >> Hi everyone,
> >> Curious if anyone here has successfully used one of the updated editions of
> >> lynx to sign into, and complete an order at amazon.com?
> >> Lately I am getting a please turn on cookies error, even with my cookies
> >> being
> >> accepted.
> >> Further if I try   more than once the site request authentication, thinking
> >> i
> >> am a hacker.
> >> Even the so called access site, the one for simplified browsing now has
> >> issues.
> >> Thanks,
> >> Karen
> >>
> >>
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