On 2016-04-24 "Veek.M" <vek.m1...@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@argenau:~$ echo PERSISTENT_COOKIES:TRUE > /tmp/lynxcfg-cookies ametzler@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 -- `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are so grateful to you.' `I sew his ears on from time to time, sure'