Aminet new feature

[lurkist]

Hi,

Aminet's new feature "Showing" seems like a great idea, but it doesn't work for me from Ibrowse.  I can select the platforms I want and it confirms, but when I try a search it reverts back to showing all.  I have cookies enabled.  Any ideas?

Cheers

[cgutjahr]

Thanks for the hint.

There seems to be a communication problem between the Aminet server and IBrowse when accessing Aminet as http://aminet.net. We suspect that this might be a bug in IBrowse's cookie handling, the IB team has been informed.

nicomen added a workaround now, please try again.

[nicomen]

For the technical people:

(BUGFIX) (WEB) Added workaround for broken Ibrowse2.3 cookie handling. Setting a cookie to ".aminet.net" led to Ibrowse not sending the cookie to http://aminet.net. Now we set two cookies one for domain ".aminet.net" and one for domain "aminet.net"

18:56 <@nicomen> http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2965

18:58 <@nicomen> 1. a cookie set to bar.tld should be stored as .bar.tld
18:59 <@nicomen> 2. a cookie stored as .bar.tld should be sent to foo.bar.tld where foo = [^\.]+
19:00 <@nicomen> some browsers don't do 1) so storing the cookie with domain .bar.tld is encouraged
19:00 <@nicomen> I'll try to work around it adding two cookies one to aminet.net and one to
                 .aminet.net

It's ugly, but it seems to do the trick

[lurkist]

Well done gentlemen, it's fine now.

Cheers