Re: lynx-dev Lynx 2.7.1 and 2.8 refuse to render certain HTML documents

[Bela Lubkin]

Foteos Macrides wrote:

> Michael Warner <address@hidden> wrote:

> >I tried the -force_html switch (Lynx Version 2.8pre.3), and it
> >doesn't seem to work on this page.  The only other way I've used it,
> >which worked, is to view email html attachments that are mis-labeled
> >plain/text.  Is the purpose of the switch in fact to override the
> >Content-Type header, or is that a misunderstanding, on my part, of its
> >purpose?  =

>       It's intended for local files which have been named things like
> "My HTML file" instead of "My HTML file.html".  But the code is there
> so it would be easy to add a command to reload and override any headers
> as well (one also must decide on a command key, from the precious few
> that are left, which wouldn't be better saved for something else :).

Why not use '\', i.e. the SOURCE command?  That makes the SOURCE command
more symmetric -- a general toggle between handling data as text/html
vs. text/plain.

>Bela<