7-Nov-2002 00:05 Philip Webb wrote: > 020315 Walter Ian Kaye wrote: >> What makes a cookie invalid? How can this be fixed/prevented? >> (And what difference does it make if it's "invalid" anyway?)
> --- somewhat obscure dialog shortened --- >> Your board keeps wanting to set three invalid cookies, >> which really impinges upon its usability and upon my nerves. >> "Accept invalid cookie path=/cgi-bin/ikonboard/ikonboard.cgi >> as a prefix of '/cgi-bin/ikonboard/ikonb..." That's as muchi >> as shows on my screen, but ought to be enough to troubleshoot. > --- end of dialog --- I saw this also, with http://guru.yandex.ru for example (it is in Russian, sorry, may send a trace log). I have a feeling lynx assume perfectly valid prefix as invalid one when it is not ended with "/" (cookie path prefix means a path substring, right?). > this has come up twice before, one time being me: see below. > Lynx should honor the instruction ne`V'er to accept a cookie > also in cases where the cookie is invalid: at present, it keeps asking. > obviously, it's a simple oversight when cookie support was added long ago. > it's a daily irritant for me reading the news via Yahoo/Reuter/AP. > please could someone fix it? TD? anyone else? really, it should be easy. ; To UNSUBSCRIBE: Send "unsubscribe lynx-dev" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
