On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Mike Castle wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 12, 2000 at 07:18:20PM -0600, Klaus Weide wrote:
> >
> > If .lynx_cookies isn't empty, but the "cookie jar" is:
> > then either lynx was not using that file at all, or all cookies
> > in it were found to be expired or maybe otherwise invalid.
>
>
> If the cookies expire, is anything noted anywhere (besides, possibly, via
> tracing)?
No. But usually you'll be offered a new one when you visit the same
site the next time. You'll notice, unless you have chosen to auto-accept
(or auto-reject).
> Perhaps a flag could be set that states that sometime during the session,
> cookies had expired. That could reinforce the dynamic nature of cookies.
I doubt that that would be useful.
Most of the time, cookies don't disappear from the cookie jar by
strictly "expiring" (i.e. exceeding the expiriation date), but by being
replaced with a new cookie, or simply by the end of session (for cookies
without expiration date). Vanishing by exipiration is the least "dynamic"
way of dissappearing.
Klaus
