Re: LYNX-DEV Problem with input fields in the latest Lynx271f from Fote

[Foteos Macrides]

Louis-David Mitterrand <address@hidden> wrote:
>I just built the latest Lynx from Fote's gopher server with SSL added
>and now the text input fields don't work anymore. If I type 'p' while in
>an textfield I get the "save, print, etc" menu, is I type 'd' I get the
>"Download, Cancel", etc...

        The wrong LYForms.c ended up in the zip.  It traps ^V, but
returns everthing else back to the main loop as an LYK_foo command
(not just 'p'rint and 'd'ownload), so I could quickly check out
empirically whether any of them are problematic with it's current
main loop code (none are, as far as I could tell).  The correct
LYForms.c is in the current lynx271f.zip.  Our old gopher server
seemed an obscure enough place for making that code available to
people using the SSL hooks.  Did you really need to state that in
your lynx-dev message?   People should not start using that except
with the SSL hooks.


>Also I have a question (maybe it's solved in the latest dev release):
>when I connect to a site requiring basic authentification with the
>"-auth=login:pass" command-line switch, then why does lynx first
>attempts to connect _without_ authentification? The status line shows:

        It is inappropriate to send authorization info without reason
to do so based on the HTTP protocol.  If you enter it on the command
line, it is used for the first authorization realm made know to Lynx,
and not blindly for the startup URL.  That, for example, allows you
to specify authorization info which will be needed at some point in
a traversal of your http server, but not for its root.

                                Fote

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