Re: lynx-dev Lynx download problem

[Philip Webb]

980528 Jacob Poon wrote: 
> Tested on Lynx 2.7.2 (SunOS 5.5.1)
> When I go to  http://www.avp.ru/ , Lynx gives this message:
>  text/html;charset=windows-1251  D)ownload, or C)ancel
> Instead of viewing this page on screen, Lynx asked me to download the web
> page.  Does it have to do with the page's encoding?  (It is Russian, btw.)

using 2-8pre.2 i had no problem after  lynx http://www.avp.ru/ ,
which immediately obtained the page, which i've copied below,
with apparently good Russian (i know a bit) in Latin letters;
it's an anti-virus software site.  is it a problem with 2-7-2 ... ?

   [INLINE]
   
   [1]koi [2]win [3]alt [4]iso [5]mac 
   [INLINE] Dobro pozhalovat' na nash WWW-server
   
   [6]Russkie stranicy
   
   
   [INLINE] [INLINE] Welcome to our WWW-site
   
   
   [7]English pages
   
   [INLINE] "Goryachie" novosti
   
   [8]Obnovleniya antivirusnyh baz i oznakomitel'nye versii AVP [INLINE]
   Hot !
   
   [9]Welcome to download updates and trial-version! 
   
   
   [INLINE]
   
   [INLINE]
   
   [10]Informaciya o virusah 
   
   [11]Kak k nam proehat'
   
   Vnimanie !  
   
   [INLINE]   [12]Laboratoriya Kasperskogo i ee znamenityj produkt AVP
   priznany luchshimi mire!
   
   [INLINE]   [13]Seminar "Bezopasnost' korporativnyh setej"
   
   [INLINE]    [14]Vyshel reliz - kandidat antivirusnogo diskovogo
   revizora dlya Windows 95 i Windows NT - [15]AVP Inspector
   ([16]15.05.98)
   
   [INLINE]     [17]Evgenij Kasperskij metit v klassiki russkoj
   antivirusnoj literatury
   Na proshloj nedele v izdatel'stve "SK Press" vyshlo i postupilo v
   prodazhu tret'e izdanie knigi Evgeniya Kasperskogo "KOMP'YUTERNYE
   VIRUSY: chto `eto takoe i kak s nimi borot'sya". 
   
   [INLINE]     [18]Esche odno prilozhenie Microsoft Office palo zhertvoj
   komp'yuternogo virusa
   V konce marta `etogo goda razrabotchiki neskol'kih antivirusnyh
   kompanij poluchili obrazec novogo "komp'yuternogo parazita", esche
   neizvestnogo peredovoj antivirusnoj nauke. Pri tschatel'nom
   rassmotrenii okazalos', chto on predstavlyaet soboj ocherednoj vid
   stol' rasprostranennogo na segodnyashnij den' semejstva makro-virusov.
   Odnako v otlichii ot vezdesuschih makro-virusov, porazhayuschih
   dokumenty Word i tablicy Excel, novyj virus poselilsya v dosele
   nezanyatoj `ekologicheskoj nishe - sredoj obitaniya dlya nego
   yavlyayutsya bazy dannyh Microsoft Access.
   
   [INLINE]     [19]Vyshel rezidentnyj monitor dlya Windows NT - "AVP
   Monitor", vhodyaschij v postavku versii AVP dlya Windows 95 / NT
   
   
   [INLINE] Ne zabud'te posmotret' :
   
                           [20]http://www.avp.ch
                           [21]http://www.avp.com
                      [22]http://www.antivirus.com.au
                           [23]http://www.avp.it
                          [24]http://www.avpro.de
                       [25]http://www.avp-france.com
                           [26]http://www.avp.tm
                        [27]http://www.avp.e-burg.ru
                      [28]http://www.antivirus.jsc.ru
                         [29]http://virus.komi.ru 
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