Re: LYNX-DEV Public assess to Lynx 2.3 BETA and "go anywhere" URLs?

[Foteos Macrides]

"David W. Morgan" <address@hidden> wrote:
>Liberty Net at philadelphia.libertynet.org has recently disabled its
>"g" command in Lynx 2.3 BETA.
> 
>This was the best way for somebody using Lynx 2.5 or Lynx 2.6 to
>get a free home page on GeoCities at http://www.geocities.com/
> 
>The folks at GeoCities write invalid HTML, and you get the "Bad HTML- 
>no form action defined" message whenever you try to apply for a home
>page or even change your password with 2.5 or 2.6.  I THINK 2.4
>will work, but not anything newer.
> 
>I have asked the Hawaii State Public Library to upgrade to Lynx 2.7,
>so if they ever do, the only accessible Lynx 2.4 that I know about will
>be gone too.
> 
>BTW, I have been trying for a year to get GeoCities to fix their forms,
>without success.  They created everything with Netscape in mind, and
>that is all they care about.
> 
>If anyone knows where to find Lynx 2.37 BETA that does not require an
>account, please let me know.  Downloading is not an option for people
>on library terminals.

        I'm not certain I've grasped what you're asking, but you can
get old versions of Lynx (back to v2.2), as well as the binaries that
were generated for them, in:

        ftp://ftp2.cc.ukans.edu/pub/lynx/oldversions
        
        The reason v2.3 works with some bad HTML that trips up newer
versions, is because it doesn't recognize tags that are interdigited
instead of properly nested in that HTML, and thus completely ignores
them (so they're not interdigitated; they're functional not there;
but they're also not acted upon in valid HTML 8-);

        As much as possible, I've added tricks, which Rob recently
referred to as "horridity", for getting around the requirement of
proper nesting with Lynx's stack-based SGML and HTML parsers.  However,
one can't use such tricks for FORM start and end tags without risks of
crashes in Lynx.  Perhaps in future development Rob will "snip" out
the "horridity" and provide means to cope with all such bad HTML, and
with no risks of crashes.  All we can do, at present, is hope this
wonderful dream comes true. :) :) :)

                                Fote

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