[pkg-lynx-maint] Bug#822405: lynx: Cookie Saving -cookie_save_file not working

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2016-04-24 "Veek.M" <vek.m1234 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Package: lynx
> Version: 2.8.9dev1-2+deb8u1
> Severity: normal

> Dear Maintainer,

>    * What led up to the situation?
> 1. I ran: lynx -cookie_save_file=/tmp/cookies google.com
> 2. It prompted me to allow a cookie and I did so.
> 3. I exited using 'q'.
> 4. There was no cookie in /tmp/cookies

> 5. I ran strace -f -o, there was no mention of an 'open' on that file.
> I also checked Options to make sure i was not ignoring the cookie.

> It would be nice if you guys could fix this bug quickly - I require lynx -dump 
> and need to feed the website a cookie. The format of the cookie file is not known
> therefore I need to save a cookie first.
[...]

Hello,

persistent cookie support is not enabled by default.

ametzler at argenau:~$ echo PERSISTENT_COOKIES:TRUE > /tmp/lynxcfg-cookies
ametzler at argenau:~$ ls -l /tmp/cookies ; lynx -cfg=/tmp/lynxcfg-cookies -accept_all_cookies -cookie_save_file=/tmp/cookies google.com ; ls -l /tmp/cookies
ls: Zugriff auf '/tmp/cookies' nicht möglich: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
Suche nach  'google.com' erster
-rw------- 1 ametzler ametzler 170 Apr 24 08:07 /tmp/cookies

cu Andreas
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