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hatten

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From: Sweden, Borlange

Registered: 2009-02-23

Posts: 736

Save cookies between sessions in lynx

Lynx doesn't save cookies between sessions, which I find very disturbing, I googled it and as I understood it it's a compile-time option. I found no hits for lynx in AUR either. Am I missing something or am I better off making a PKGBUILD request?

JackH79

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From: Australia

Registered: 2009-06-18

Posts: 663

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Re: Save cookies between sessions in lynx

-cookie_file=FILENAME
specifies a file to use to read cookies. If none is specified, the default value is ~/.lynx_cookies for most systems, but ~/cookies for MS-DOS.
-cookie_save_file=FILENAME
specifies a file to use to store cookies. If none is specified, the value given by -cookie_file is used.
-cookies
toggles handling of Set-Cookie headers.

Don't they work? Haven't tried it myself, but seems like what you're looking for.

hatten

Arch Linux f@h Team Member

From: Sweden, Borlange

Registered: 2009-02-23

Posts: 736

Re: Save cookies between sessions in lynx

nope, doesn't work. Even if I create the file manually nothing in it is touched. I have set a file in .lynxrc and that doesn't work either.