Re: Correct one-line-description of cookie setting in textbrowser w3m needed
Hello Justin, hello subscribers of this list,
please note with references to:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-l10n-english/2014/10/msg00021.html
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=765068#49
In the course of my translation work on the man-page of w3m, I made a
couple of tests and meanwhile learned to know the option -reqlog
w3m -reqlog URL
and found out
~/.w3m/request.log
as the place for the logged data and what kind of data inside. They
show the HTTP communication between w3m and the web server. The file
features domain name information of both sides as well as the domain
string within a cookie the server tries to set on the disk of the
client PC; in other words, value of its domain attribute of the
cookie. See the snippet below with a SET-COOKIE request by
wikipedia's server and usage of a cookie by w3m.
In addition, the file that stores cookies
~/.w3m/cookie
is a plain text file. It is loaded into the browser upon start and
saved before EXIT.
I think with this technical background information, it should be
possible to unravel what domain information is subject to validation
and what are in fact the criteria applied in this validation.
I would appreciate if there was somebody who designs and performs the
necessary tests, The findings would be valuable to improve the w3m's
user documentation.
Regards
Markus
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GET / HTTP/1.0
User-Agent: w3m/0.5.3+cvs-1.1055
Accept: text/html, text/*;q=0.5, image/*, application/*, audio/*, video/*, message/*
Accept-Encoding: gzip, compress, bzip, bzip2, deflate
Accept-Language: en;q=1.0
Host: de.wikipedia.org
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Server: Apache
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
Cache-control: s-maxage=1200, must-revalidate, max-age=0
Last-Modified: Sun, 19 Oct 2014 18:23:54 GMT
Location: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Hauptseite
Content-Encoding: gzip
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Vary: Accept-Encoding,X-Forwarded-Proto,Cookie,X-Use-HHVM
X-Varnish: 115743251, 3889558698 3889556238, 2750104885 2749402641
Via: 1.1 varnish, 1.1 varnish, 1.1 varnish
Content-Length: 20
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2014 18:34:39 GMT
Age: 645
Connection: close
X-Cache: cp1055 miss (0), amssq48 hit (25), amssq48 frontend hit (172)
X-Analytics: php=zend
Set-Cookie: GeoIP=DE:Schwabhausen:48.4000:11.3500:v4; Path=/; Domain=.wikipedia.org
GET /wiki/Wikipedia:Hauptseite HTTP/1.0
User-Agent: w3m/0.5.3+cvs-1.1055
Accept: text/html, text/*;q=0.5, image/*, application/*, audio/*, video/*, message/*
Accept-Encoding: gzip, compress, bzip, bzip2, deflate
Accept-Language: en;q=1.0
Host: de.wikipedia.org
Referer: http://de.wikipedia.org/
Cookie: GeoIP=DE:Schwabhausen:48.4000:11.3500:v4
Cookie2: $Version="1"
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Apache
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
Content-language: de
X-UA-Compatible: IE=Edge
Last-Modified: Sun, 19 Oct 2014 10:13:34 GMT
Content-Encoding: gzip
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Vary: Accept-Encoding,Cookie,X-Use-HHVM
X-Varnish: 1111890659, 2301775781 2301775196, 2260380402 2231581926
Via: 1.1 varnish, 1.1 varnish, 1.1 varnish
Content-Length: 14505
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2014 18:34:40 GMT
Age: 30065
Connection: close
X-Cache: cp1053 miss (0), amssq46 hit (14), amssq49 frontend hit (11335)
Cache-Control: private, s-maxage=0, max-age=0, must-revalidate
X-Analytics: php=zend
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