RE: LYNX-DEV Fatal error

[Nick Russo]

My recently compiled Lynx Version 2.7.1ac-0.24 handled it just fine, even
though the html code in the page is horrible. A previous version could
only stomach it after I took out the unclosed <b>'s and <tt>'s. Is there
something in the newer version of Lynx that enables it to handle this kind
of dirty code?

Nick Russo

On Tue, 22 Jul 1997, David Hardy wrote:

> On Tue, 22 Jul 1997 13:50, Andrew McArdle (address@hidden ) wrote:
> 
> > Hope this bug/problem hasn't be already reported.
> > 
> > Whilst looking at the following URL <http://www.mircx.com/scripts5.htm> 
> > Lynx Version 2.7.1 proceded to dump the following to screen, then causing a 
> > core dump:
> > 
> > [...]
> > HTML: ****** Maximum nesting of 800 tags exceeded!
> > HTML: ****** Maximum nesting of 800 tags exceeded!
> > HTML: ****** Maximum nesting of 800 tags exceeded!
> > HTML: *784** Maximum nestHTML: ****** Maximum nesting of 800 tags exceeded!
> > 
> > I used this on Debian Linux 2.0.29 on a i486 unknown.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Andrew
> 
> I don't think that the fault is in Lynx but with the HTML script. The script
> contains lines of the form
> 
>    <td width=100><tt><b><a 
> href=/cgi-bin/download?ac40full.zip>ac40full.zip</a>
>    </td><td width=225><tt><b>AC</td><td width=225><tt><b>AlleyCat</td>
>    <td width=50 align=right><tt><b>530KB</td><tr>
> 
> (the above is actually one line in the script). The script repeatedly uses the
> <b> and <tt> tags without closing them and putting the script through the
> WebTechs HTML validation service (http://www.webtechs.com/html-val-svc/)
> produces over 60 screens of errors. I suspect that the page was built under 
> the
> assumption that the </td> also closed the <b> and <tt> that followed the
> matching <td> but Lynx (and the validator) don't agree that it does.
> 
> David
> 
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