Re: [Lynx-dev] lynx and amazon?

[Jude DaShiell]

Anyone want to try a different user-agent string as a test and see if
you can get through?

On Tue, 27 Aug 2019, Ian Collier wrote:

> Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2019 11:41:25
> From: Ian Collier <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [Lynx-dev] lynx and amazon?
>
> On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 03:37:20PM -0400, Karen Lewellen wrote:
> > 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.
>
> It's not unique to you.  I cannot see any way of getting past this screen
> in Lynx without being able to view the image.  The audio challenge simply
> doesn't work at all.  Incidentally, it doesn't seem to matter whether or
> not you enter your password correctly on the first login screen.
>
> But even if I do view the CAPTCHA and enter the correct characters,
> Amazon sends Lynx to the "please enable cookies" page.  Now when I
> look at the cookie jar, all I have is 'i18n-prefs=GBP' whereas there
> are supposed to be at least 'session-id' and 'session-id-time' cookies
> set; and indeed they were set before I entered the CAPTCHA.  There is
> also supposed to be 'ubid-acbuk', but this one was never present in
> Lynx's cookie jar.  I think the lack of this cookie is what is prompting
> Amazon to say "please enable cookies".
>
> So I think there is another issue going on.  Amazon is issuing some
> cookies valid for approx 20 years and these are not getting stored
> in my copy of Lynx.  I think we may be suffering from a year-2038
> bug here.  (This may vary with how Lynx is compiled.  My copy is
> the one provided by the Fedora 30 packagers on x86_64 platform.)
>
> Looking back in my Lynx.trace for Set-Cookie headers, I have something
> like this (in reverse order):
>
> Set-Cookie: session-id-time=2197638836l; Domain=.amazon.co.uk; Expires=Mon, 
> 22-Aug-2039 15:13:56 GMT; Path=/
> Set-Cookie: session-id=xxx-xxxxxxx-xxxxxxx; Domain=.amazon.co.uk; 
> Expires=Mon, 22-Aug-2039 15:13:56 GMT; Path=/
> Set-Cookie: ubid-acbuk=xxx-xxxxxxx-xxxxxxx; Domain=.amazon.co.uk; 
> Expires=Mon, 22-Aug-2039 15:13:28 GMT; Path=/
> Set-Cookie: i18n-prefs=GBP; Domain=.amazon.co.uk; Expires=Tue, 01-Jan-2036 
> 08:00:01 GMT; Path=/
> Set-Cookie: session-id-time=2082787201l; Domain=.amazon.co.uk; Expires=Tue, 
> 01-Jan-2036 08:00:01 GMT; Path=/
> Set-Cookie: session-id=xxx-xxxxxxx-xxxxxxx; Domain=.amazon.co.uk; 
> Expires=Tue, 01-Jan-2036 08:00:01 GMT; Path=/
>
> The ones dated 2039 never appeared in Lynx whereas the ones dated 2036 did;
> and moreover, the later 2039 ones caused the earlier 2036 ones to be deleted.
>
> imc
>
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