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Re: LYNX-DEV http://www.excite.com/Info/add_url.html


From: Foteos Macrides
Subject: Re: LYNX-DEV http://www.excite.com/Info/add_url.html
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 14:43:38 -0500 (EST)

Oedipus Wrecked <address@hidden> wrote:
>has anyone ever tried using the above URL to register an URL of one's own
>to the excite database from within lynx?  well, you can't...  lynx26
>returns an:
>
>UNMODIFIABLE form text field.  Use UP or DOWN arrows or tab to move off.
>
>status-line error message...  and one can only (as the status line message
>says) move off of the text-entry field with a directional keystroke, as it
>will not accept keyboard input...
>
>here's the offending code:
>
><P>This form allows you to add a web site to Excite's constantly refreshed
>database of 50 million URLs. If you have any questions about adding your site,
>please read <A href="/Info/listing.html">getting listed on Excite</A>.
>
><P>
>
><FORM METHOD="POST" ACTION="/cgi/info.cgi" ENCTYPE=multipart/form-data>
                                                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
><B>Enter the URL of the web site you'd like us to add:</B><P>
><INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="url" VALUE="http://"; SIZE=44>
><INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="MessageType" VALUE="addsite">
><INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="path" VALUE="http://www.excite.com/";>
><INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="look" VALUE="excite">
><INPUT TYPE="submit" NAME="Action" VALUE="Send">
><INPUT TYPE="reset">
></FORM>

        Lynx cannot handle ENCTYPE=multipart/form-data and thus
sets the DISABLED attribute for all the form fields so that the
form cannot be submitted.  That ENCTYPE is for TYPE="file",
which is not being used in the form, so perhaps it could be
changed to the default ENCTYPE=application/x-www-form-urlencoded.

        See the "Lynx and HTML Forms" section of the "Lynx Users Guide"
via the online 'h'elp.  This, and other information Lynx users SHOULD
BE CONSCIENCIOUS ENOUGH TO READ, is at your fingertips!

                                Fote

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