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 <ian.coll...@cs.ox.ac.uk> > To: lynx-dev@nongnu.org > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Lynx-dev mailing list > Lynx-dev@nongnu.org > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lynx-dev > -- _______________________________________________ Lynx-dev mailing list Lynx-dev@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lynx-dev
