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 _______________________________________________ Lynx-dev mailing list Lynx-dev@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lynx-dev
