Re: LYNX-DEV bug (fwd)

[Carl Reimann]

 From Al.
 
 Carl
 
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 On Thu, 24 Oct 1996 13:27:18 -0400 (EDT), 
        Al Gilman <address@hidden> said:
 
   From: Carl Reimann <address@hidden>
   
     This page demonstrates some aspect of the problem I have
    been finding here and there. Rather than simply listing
    their links, people put them into some redirect program
    that fails. Can any of you use Lynx to access the URLs
    so trapped at the top of the URL below?
    
 Yes, I was able to follow the thread with Lynx 2.5 -- as you may
 have guessed by the time you saw my post on this.  I believe that
 the failure of the redirect has to do with the "redirects and
 form modes" FAQ.  I didn't capture and read the trace, but I
 think I saw enough fly by to confirm that their redirect swaps
 modes from POST to GET on the redirect, which is illegal by v2.6
 [2.6 got strict and lots of 'em now fail].  Version 2.4.1 just
 ain't gonna cope with most of that page.  If the site authors
 just put up one vanilla entry page where they give the LoTech
 visitor a chance to follow the appropriate path, they can have
 all the wizzy widgets they want on the the 2nd through Nth page
 of the high-glitz path.  The first page doesn't have to be
 text-only.  It just has to be "safe."  That's the DTD we haven't
 produced, yet: "safe."
 
 Al Gilman
 http://www.access.digex.net/~asgilman/lynx/FAQ
 
 
 
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