Cookie handling prevents logging in on some sites.

On Mon, 15 Nov 2010, Benji York wrote:

> Public bug reported:
>
> Binary package hint: lynx
>
> Cookies which are set for domain=.example.com are not sent in requests
> to example.com (note the lack of a www. prefix). This means users can
> not log into sites like Launchpad (launchpad.net) which need to set
> authentication cookies for many subsites (e.g., code.launchpad.net)
> because they store their authentication cookies with
> domain=.launchpad.net.
>
> Duplication instructions can be found at https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net
> /launchpad-foundations/+bug/586908/comments/4.

I think I can reproduce this (2.8.2dev.6).

> Any pointers to an upstream place where this bug can also be filed would
> be appreciated as well.

launchpad isn't really a good place to report bugs, since they're rarely
fixed in Ubuntu - it's using a moderately old version of Debian testing.
The "lynx-cur" package in Debian gets the most bug-reports (other than
the lynx-dev mailing list).

> The version of Lynx being used is 2.8.8dev.2-1 on Ubuntu 10.04.
>
> ** Affects: lynx (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
>
> --
> Cookie handling prevents logging in on some sites.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/675726
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>

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On Tue, 16 Nov 2010, Thomas Dickey wrote:

> I think I can reproduce this (2.8.2dev.6).
                                 2.8.8dev.6

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I don't recall a fix for this specific issue, but am able to login using 2.8.8pre.3 without issue.