This is part of The Pile, a partial archive of some open source mailing lists and newsgroups.
From: Bruce Richardson <brichardson@lineone.net> Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 02:34:27 +0100 (GMT) Subject: Re: Lynx cookies & Hotmail woes On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Hugo Rabson wrote: > I can't make Lynx accept cookies... at least, not to Hotmail's > satisfaction. I've tried the '-accept_all_cookies' and '-cookies' switches > but no joy. > > Help!! :) I admit it, I'm utterly lost & I need a guru or something. I'll have to do. Lynx does accept cookies but only temporarily - the "cookie jar" doesn't save anything between sessions. As far as I know, the developers have no plans to change this. They have their beliefs about how the internet should work and they act as if it were so. I do love lynx. === From: Charles Galpin <cgalpin@lighthouse-software.com> Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 22:56:36 -0400 (EDT) Subject: RE: Lynx cookies & Hotmail woes On 08-Apr-99 Hugo Rabson wrote: > I can't make Lynx accept cookies... at least, not to Hotmail's > satisfaction. I've tried the '-accept_all_cookies' and '-cookies' switches > but no joy. Ok here's the deal None of those cookie switches will help. If you access hotmail manually with Lynx, the first time it prompts you to accept cookies, answering once with 'A' will enable cookies for that session. So I think all you have to do is give your calls to lynx a 'A' This is where the shell experts can correct me if this is wrong, but it seems to work for me. I belive you can change your current call of lynx -dump $URL > outfile to echo 'A' | lynx -dump $URL >outfile ===