Re: lynx-dev [dev17 patch] cookie options documentation

[brian j pardy]

On Boomtime, the 52nd of Chaos, 3165, David Woolley wrote:
> > ! # COOKIE_ACCEPT_DOMAINS and COOKIE_REJECT_DOMAINS are comma-delimited 
> > lists of
> 
> I don't generally have a problem accepting session cookies, but there only
> a very few sites (Microsoft, basically) where I reluctantly accept 
> persistent cookies.  Some sites use a mix of both and won't work without
> the session cookies (it's a hassle having to inspect every cookie on a GUI
> browser).
> 
> For my purposes, these two options are not enough, and I would have to
> continue to manually check cookies.  I'd need the ability to selectively
> accept session cookies for this to be useful.

I'm a little wary of adding yet another option for this (do we really
need more options for cookies than for HTML parsing?), but I think it
would be a pretty minimal thing to do. 

Does anyone else think this would be a useful thing?

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