Re: LYNX-DEV Bug in Lynx 2-7-2 with web500gw

[Ric Miller ACNS]

On Fri, 16 Jan 1998, David Woolley wrote:

> Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 08:04:16 +0000 (GMT)
> From: David Woolley <address@hidden>
> Reply-To: address@hidden
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: LYNX-DEV Bug in Lynx 2-7-2 with web500gw
> 
> > 
> > After installing lynx 2-7-2 the following url 
> > 
> >   http://directory.colostate.edu:1411/o=Colorado State University, c=US
> 
> As you more or less point out below, this is not a URL.
 
  This worked at 2-5.  It seem to be valid then.  It works with Netscape
  3.0 and all other versions as far as I know.

> > |   No additional information is available.Please report unexpected 
> > |   errors/bugs to your administrator.
> 
> They mean the administrator of the web500gw installation.  The server in 
> question is the LDAP server.
 
  I know the web500gw is complaining.  He is complaining because lynx 2.7.2
  got rid of the spaces.  No other clients I have tried has done this.

> > At 2-7-2 THE SEARCH BOX APPEARS AT THE BOTTOM(this is not correct).
> 
> >                                                        I do not  understand
> > why  the search box is moved to the bottom.  This appears to have something
> > to do with the web500gw detecting what kind of client is talking to it  and
> > changing the source html accordingly?  
> 
> That's rather strange, as I don't believe the standard web500gw package is
> all that sophisticated in that sort of area, although I haven't experimented
> with it.  The source code is available, and you should probably follow up on
> the IETF directory deployment mailing list, as the original LDAP list seems
> to have died.

  I also find it rather strange that this would behave differently based on 
  this client.  I do not have time to look through source code that appears 
  to be working on every other client I try.  It seems to me someone should 
  be able to tell me why it works one way with lynx  2.5  and  another  way
  with 2.7.2.  


   Ric Miller (address@hidden)
   Academic Computing & Networking Services