Re: lynx-dev Problem with newer versions of Lynx

[Ismael Cordeiro]

On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Alex G Bardsley wrote:

> Hi-- I've been having problems accessing articles at the website of the
> South China Morning Post (see URL below) with newer versions of Lynx
> (2.8rel.2 at my new ISP, 2.8.1dev.7 at Digex). Version 2.7 works fine, but
> while Digex made that available as "lynx.old", Radix does not. Any
> suggestions? Thanks, Alex <address@hidden>
>
>
> Lynx Version 2.8rel.2
>
> File that you are currently viewing
>
>    Linkname: Full Story
>         URL:
>           http://www.scmp.com/news/template/Asia-Template.idc?artid=19981
>           204020943038â¤=asia&template=Default.htx&maxfieldsize=2419

Alex, when I tried to directly access that URL I got this error message:


                            Error Performing Query

   The form you just filled in requires the top entry to be filled in.
   Please fill in that entry in the form and resubmit the form.


Then I subscribed to SCMP and could access all news I tried without any
problems. I used lynx2.8.2dev2 and lynx2.8.2dev8. In the front page I found
the news in your example and the URL showed up as


   Linkname: Full Story
        URL:
          http://www.scmp.com/news/template/Asia-Template.idc?artid=19981
          204020943038&top=asia&template=Default.htx&maxfieldsize=2419


As you can see, "&top" was replaced by the Lynx you're using with "â¤".
That's why I got the message about the missing top entry. I don't know why
that is happening but I hope someone here does.

Ismael
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