cookie support of w3m


(2000/11/07) K. Okada
[email protected]

* Support of version 0 (http://www.netscape.com/newsref/std/cookie_spec.html)
and version 1 (http://www.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/http/rfc2109.txt,
http://www.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/http/draft-ietf-http-state-man-mec-12.txt)
cookie.

* If you wont to disable cookie support, run configure script with
--disable-cookie option.

* You can choose to use cookie or not on the Option Setting Panel or
-cookie and -no-cookie option.

* You can disable cookie on the Option Setting Panel. In this case
all cookies are rejected, however, cookies which accepted before
disable cookie are used.

* You can see list of accepted cookies with C-k. In this panel, you
can choose to use each cookie or not.

* You can specify domains accept or not accept cookies on the Option
Setting Panel. Domains are specified with following format.

domain-list = domains
| ""
domains = domain
| domain + "," + domains
domain = "." + domain-name ; match with domain name
| host-domain-name ; match with HDN
| ".local" ; match with all HDN except which include "."
| "." ; match with all

(HDN: host domain name)


* If the number of "." in domain name is lesser than 2, it is
assumed as invalid cookie (cf. RFC 2109 4.3.2), however, you can
use cookie_avoid_wrong_number_of_dots to avoid this
restriction. You can set this in "Domains to avoid [wrong number
of dots]" on the Option Setting Panel.