Re: Can't log in to server with emacs-w3m

[Burton Samograd]

Sean McAfee <eefacm@gmail.com> writes:

> I've been a happy user of emacs-w3m for a few months.  Recently I tried
> to use it to log into my company's internal issue-tracking server.  It
> doesn't work, though; whichever page I try to visit, I get redirected to
> the login page, and when I provide my username and password, I just get
> bounced right back to the login page.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas how I might get around this issue, or at
> least start to figure out what the underlying problem is?
>
> ...I guess this is really more of a w3m issue than an emacs-w3m issue,
> since I just ran w3m directly in a terminal window and encountered the
> same problem, but perhaps someone here has already solved it.

Have you (setq w3m-use-cookies t)?  That might be the problem...

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Burton Samograd