Re: [Edbrowse-dev] possible Referer issue

[Chuck Hallenbeck <chuckhallenbeck@gmail.com>]

Hi Kevin,

I looked at how one gets from the Amazon opening screen to the
sign-in screen by using the capital A command on line 11, and it's
not pretty. I'm not up to tackling that shortcut myself.

About cookies, in my debugging output I see references to expired
cookies, which seems strange.  But I have another concern:

It appears that issuing the db5 command and diverting the resulting
output to a log file changes the behavior of edbrowse.  Let's consider
two cases, first with db1, which is my default in the rcfile.
and second with db5, and the command to redirect  output to a log
file before opening amazon.com.

Cases 1 and 2: Open edbrowse and get a prompt.

Case 2 only: enter db5, then db>/tmp/log

Cases 1 and 2. Enter e www.amazon.com, and get the raw html size,
usually about 400000,

In case 1, but not case 2, we soon get the rendered size, a much
smaller number, and the opening screen is ready to be used.

In case 2, the buffer contains only the raw html, and we must type
the b command to render it, and only then do we see the smaller size
and can use the opening screen.

In both case 1 and case 2, we go to line 11, which contains five
links, we enter g2 to get to the sign-in screen, where we enter our
ID and Password.

For Case 1 only, we press submit and are taken to a new screen
resembling the sign-in screen, except for the messages near the top
saying "An Error Has Occurred" and "Enter a valid email address or
phone number" or some such wording.

The ID you previously typed is shown, but the password field is empty.
That was for case 1 only.

For case 2, pressing the submit button on the sign-in page causes
a segfault.

I would think the program behavior should not be changed by activating
a higher debug level, but the above is consistent and reproducible, and
makes me wonder how reliable the data in the resulting log file are.

Chuck



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