Re: new auth errors at ao3 with lynx.

Thorsten,
while I imagine that is helpful, your assumption is not correct.
The ao3 team, along with the organization for transformative works remains 
dedicated to keeping non JavaScript function in place.  Many of their 
members live in parts of the world where loading heavy JavaScript is an 
issue.
Would you mind testing the following using Lynx?
As  I told their team, my cache jar creates an entry, titled auth error, 
that specifically references cloudflair.
The team wants to confirm other lynx users generate the same record.
So, if you will try logging in at
www.archiveofourown.org
once you choose login, the following page will speak Auth error at the 
top, as if a header.
Should this happen, check your cache jar, with control x for the entry.
You will be providing information that helps lots of folks, many are 
getting the same error.

Thanks,
Kare



On Sun, 30 Nov 2025, Thorsten Glaser wrote:

> Hi Karen,
>
> I’m getting them as well. I think AO3 did something that now
> requires Javascript, as it works in Firefox.
>
> To log in, I now log in in Firefox, exit Firefox, and then
> use a small script (included below) to extract the cookies
> and copy them to lynx’ cookie jar. You’ll likely need help
> from someone experienced with the Unix commandline for that.
>
> Doing kudos, commenting, etc. is not possible with lynx at
> the moment, but I’m mostly glad I can still read.
>
> If everything else fails, https://fichub.net/ can still
> download AO3 stories, as it does for FFN stories.
>
> .
>
> The script itself (ffgetcookies) is included as an attachment.
> It needs mksh and sqlite3 installed, and one needs to either have
> only one Firefox profile or call it with the name of the right
> cookies.sqlite file to dump.
>
> The output is in lynx (Netscape) cookie jar format, and one
> needs to grep for archiveofourown and copy the corresponding
> lines into the lynx cookie jar while lynx is not running(!).
>
> Careful when copying, the format uses both tabs and spaces,
> so make sure to not change the tabs to spaces accidentally,
> or it won’t work.
>
> Good luck,
> //mirabilos
> -- 
> „Cool, /usr/share/doc/mksh/examples/uhr.gz ist ja ein Grund,
> mksh auf jedem System zu installieren.“
> 	-- XTaran auf der OpenRheinRuhr, ganz begeistert
> (EN: “[…]uhr.gz is a reason to install mksh on every system.”)