Problem : Saving Cookie with Lynx

[Anderson Fang <Anderson.Fang@ezplay.tv>]

Hello all, 

    Let's suppose I have two pages : Main.php and Auth.php
    
    While I try to access Main.php, it will check if I got a cookie for authentication first. If yes, I can access the rest of the page. If not, it will redirect me to Auth.php for some identity checks, give me a valid cookie, and then redirect me back to Main.php.

    Now I plan to use lynx with some shell scripts as a benchmark tool for Main.php, therefore I need to bypass the authentication step. I think I can access Main.php for the first time, save the cookie, and quit. After I have a cookie file, I can use this file as an argument of lynx and directly access Main.php without any redirection.

    While I execute this : 
        lynx http://foo.bar.com/Main.php -cookie_save_file=mycookie
    my "mycookie" file is still empty after I leave lynx. After I add -trace and check the content of Lynx.trace, the last line says : 
        "LYStoreCookies: 1027578613 cf 0 not stored - no expiration time"
	
    Does this means lynx cannot store a cookie that does not provide expiration time ? (I think "no expiration time" means the cookie will be kicked away after the session ends. Is that right ?) If not, how can I use lynx to solve my problem ? If yes, is there any method available ?
    
    OS		:	Debian Woody
    kernel	: 	2.4.18
    filesystem	:	EXT3
    lynx version:	2.8.4re1.1 (17 Jul 2001)
    
Thanks, 
Anderson

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