Re: Github et alia login/cookies issue

miroslav.rovis1 wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 07, 2015 at 10:27:30AM +0200, [email protected] wrote:
> > "Something went wrong with that request. Please try again."
> ...
> > $ cat  ~/.dillo/cookiesrc 
> > DEFAULT DENY
> > .github.com ACCEPT
> ...
> > $
> > 
> ...
> > LATER. I even got (and all the conf is the same, .gitbub,com is in
> > cookiesrc), just this morning 2015-07-07 09:35 right now, the:
> > 
> > "Cookies must be enabled to use GitHub."

I see what the problems are with github cookies.

1. In cookiesrc, ".github.com" is for subdomains of github, and "github.com"
   is for that host itself, so you need a "github.com" rule.

2. I was reluctant to follow the full date parsing in RFC 6265 until I had a
   compelling reason, but you have brought me a compelling reason. github's
   cookies have expiration dates like "Sat, 07 Jul 2035 13:24:19 -0000", which
   appears to be legal, but dillo doesn't recognize it. So I'll work on it.

   (By the way, I wonder why they think their cookie should last for 20 years.
   Makes me feel that I haven't been wasting my time with being careful with
   Year 2038 overflow on 32-bit machines...)