lynx-dev unanswered query (2): firewall FTP problem

[Philip Webb]

980604 Frodo Looijaard wrote:
> My provider has set up a Novell Netware proxy server.
> Both ftp and http traffic have to go through this server.
> Netscape seems to work for both, lynx does http OK but refuses to ftp.
> This happens for both lynx 2.7.1 and lynx 2.8.
> My system is Linux with kernel 2.0.34pre12b.
> Settings in lynx.cfg:
>   http_proxy:http://10.1.1.1:8080/
>   ftp_proxy:http://10.1.1.1:8080/
              ^^^^
just a thought: should this be  ftp ?

> Looking at the trace, it seems something goes wrong at the HTMIME lines.
> It almost looks as if some text got lost
> perhaps due to some unexpected EOL-markers or something?

> lynx -trace ftp://sunsite.unc.edu (some control codes edited):
-- very long output snipped: see Archive --
> --- Talking HTTP1.
> HTTP/1.0 200 OK
> HTFormat: Constructing stream stack for www/mime to www/present
> HTFormat: Looking up presentation for www/mime to www/present
> StreamStack: found weak wildcard match: www/present
> FindPresentation: found exact match: www/mime
> StreamStack: found exact match: www/mime
> HTMIME:  
> HTMIME:  DRESS>
> Generated by Novell Proxy
> </ADDRESS>
> 
> HTMIME: Got 'D' at beginning of line, checking for 'ate:'
> HTMIME: Bad character `R' found where `ate:' expected
> Read 45 bytes of data.
> Data transfer complete
> HTAccess:  status=29997
> HTAccess: `ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/' has been accessed.
> ^M
> 
> lynx: Start file could not be found or is not text/html or text/plain
>       Exiting...
 
no-one took this up: maybe Frodo found a simple solution.
is Frodo still concerned or does anyone at lynx-dev have ideas?
again, it happens with 2-8.

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