lynx-dev Re: -post_data sample please

[Yury Burkatovsky]

I use lynx 2.8.2pre.11 on HP-UX 10.20.

I do not know for sure if it hangs; I just waited for a while, then killed
the command and restarted with option -accept_all_cookies. Maybe too
hasty?

I'd say the hanging is not a bug: the default behaviour of lynx is "ask
user", and since stdin is redirected, the user cannot do anything about
accepting the cookie when lynx encounters it in offline mode.

One could use option -cookies instead of -accept_all_cookies in the
command, but there are many sites that reject access if the browser
denies their cookies. I did not test this particular form for -cookies.

Just now I cannot reassure if it really hangs: our FireWall server is
down.  Will return to this on Sunday. 
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On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Klaus Weide wrote:

> On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Yury Burkatovsky wrote:
> 
> > lynx -accept_all_cookies -post_data
> > http://auctions.amazon.com/exec/varzea/subsequent-query/qid=934502155/002-2579128-3212046
> > < /tmp/sample.data
> > 
> > The option -accept_all_cookies is needed so as lynx could process offline
> > all the cookies that the site suggests, otherwise the command hangs. 
> 
> Did it really hang?  That would be a bug (unless it is caused by
> network problems or an overloaded server).  I could not reproduce it.
> 
> Maybe you used an older version?
> 
>   Klaus
>