On Wed, 7 May 2008, Sébastien Hinderer wrote:
Hi Mario, thanks for your reply,
I see the same thing here for amazon.de with botz, lynx and lynx-cur.
Okay.
My suspicion is that they changed something on their site
which now makes lynx unusable :-(.
Just a me too. On amazon.ca. And on Fedora.
I was logged in at some point in November-December, so login must have
worked before, and when I wanted to actually place an order for Christmas,
never could login.
Perhaps, but I wonder whether there isn't a problem on lynx-s side,
however.
Quite possibly. I don't remember specific circumstances off the top of my
head, but I've had cases where I could do things with elinks that lynx
couldn't. Oh I think last time that happened was logging in to a Google
account for Summer of Code...
Indeed, after submitting a search query to Google, lynx asks whether it
should accept cookies with an invalid prefix.
I had a brief look at a lynx trace, it seems to think that the cookie
needs to be a prefix of / rather than /search... (The cookie is
path=/search and the URL is http://www.google.com/search?....) So lynx
might well be wrong here actually, or perhaps having a overly strict
interpretation of some standard...
There are options to ask
lynx to accept all cookies even those with an invalid prefix, but this
option seems to be not saved properly on disk.
On Ubuntu I have
ACCEPT_ALL_COOKIES:TRUE
FORCE_COOKIE_PROMPT:yes
in my /etc/lynx-cur/local.cfg, and that makes it accept the prompt
automatically. It still likes to pause and show it to you, along with lots
of other useless status messages, makes it a lot slower than it could be.
Other useful options I have in there are:
TEXTFIELDS_NEED_ACTIVATION:TRUE
PERSISTENT_COOKIES:TRUE
COOKIE_FILE:~/.lynx_cookies
REFERER_WITH_QUERY:PARTIAL
My lynx-curr also has a bug with SSL not finding root certificates, some
bug with gnutls. That's on Ubuntu Gutsy at least, presumably in some
Debians, possibly fixed since.
I really really much prefer lynx's layout of a page and I don't like
elinks's menus much, but lynx has been having annoying issues for me
lately.
--
Stéphane Doyon
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http://pages.videotron.com/sdoyon/
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