Re: Problem : Saving Cookie with Lynx
On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 02:56:06PM +0800, Anderson Fang wrote:
> 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)
>
Have you tried lynx with the -accept_all_cookies option?
As an aside, if you're doing benchmarking of web stuff, siege is a
really nice tool. Check out http://www.joedog.org as the version is
woody is on the older side.
- Chris
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