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Re: lynx-dev cookie handling idea -- "max expire time"
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brian j. pardy |
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Re: lynx-dev cookie handling idea -- "max expire time" |
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Sun, 13 Sep 1998 17:41:10 -0700 |
address@hidden wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Sep 1998, Al Gilman wrote:
> >Yes, in an ideal world cookes would be managed under a unified
> >record management system with age-driven cleanup. But lynx
> >should not go out on a limb to provide this. And a fixed
> >max-keep-time is not so much what you want as interactive or
> >automatic pruning of the cookie jar sorted by
> >time-since-last-use.
>
> I don't know how cookies are actually stored on disk, but this would
> seem to be a good utility that could accompany lynx, rather than being
> built into lynx. Something the user could run manually or as a cron job would
> be cool.
This would have to be something that would be added in to the cookie
storage -- there's not anything keeping track of the last use of the
cookie.
I think you're right about it being external to lynx, that's a good idea.
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