Re: LYNX-DEV Win32 Lynx Problems...

[Lloyd G. Rasmussen]

On Fri, 12 Dec 1997 11:56:19 +0000, 
address@hidden  <address@hidden> wrote:

>Help!
>
>I am using the Win32 port of Lynx 2.7.1 on Windows NT4 to try and access   
>a particular form page on our company Intranet.  When I access this page   
>I get the 'HTTP request sent; waiting for response.' message but then it   
>just stays there and gets no further.
>
>The page I am trying to access is a logon screen to a database which   
>passes the user name and password.  The screen loads OK but then does not   
>get any further than the aforementioned message when the Submit button is   
>hit.  This login process uses cookies and perl scripts to pass this   
>information.
>
>I have tried using various options in the 'lynx.cfg' file and have also   
>tried using the command line switches -cookies and -force_secure but have   
>had no luck in accessing this page so far.
>
>The database I am trying to log into is the QIP IP Management database   
>written by Quadritek (www.quadritek.com).  This is a database which is   
>based on Sybase and uses a Windows client or a WWW client in order to   
>access it.
>

I hope you are using Lynx version 2-7-1 AC0.81 or later.  When the 
American Printing House for the Blind was putting their Louis database 
on the internet they discovered that the latest versions of Quadritech 
and Lynx had become incompatible.  Lynx was fixed sometime this 
summer.  

Maybe you could try the D download key on the submit button to see 
what comes back.  Since trace is not fully implemented on the DOS and 
Windows versions of Lynx, if you can find some kind of a TEE program 
and also set Lynx to use BIOS screen writes (the command 
  set pdcurses_bios=true
should do this), all its output, which would be a mixture of screen 
displays and trace output, could go into a file for examination.

-- Lloyd Rasmussen
Senior Staff Engineer, Engineering Section
National Library Service for the  Blind and Physically Handicapped
Library of Congress          202-707-0535
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