Re: lynx-dev Hotmail problem

[Klaus Weide]

On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, David Rovinsky wrote:

> >981130 Mark Harris wrote: 
> >> I can't get into my Hotmail while using LYNX.
> >> It says I have to download the text before I can get into my account.
> >> It just started doing this a couple days ago,
> >> I've never had any problems before. 
> 
> I've had this problem too, but not in every version of Lynx.
> 
> When I go to http://www.hotmail.com, I get the usual log-in page, and I 
> enter my name and password.  I then submit it, and am asked if I accept 
> my information being redirected.  Lynx 2.6 simply asks the question as 
> (yes/no), while on Lynx 2.7, I choose Proceed.  When that happens, 
> instead of going to my in-box, I get a "text/html, D)ownload or C)ancel" 
> message back from Lynx.  In other words, I can't simply get my e-mail up 
> on the screen.  Note that before Thanksgiving break, I was able to get 
> into Hotmail with any verison of Lynx (Hotmail doesn't officialy support 
> Lynx, but unofficially, all the non-javascript functions worked just 
> fine).
> 
> However, I tried Hotmail with 2.8rel2, and it works normally--nothing 
> has changed.  Note that I'm not asked about a redirection.  It seems to 
> happen on its own.

For the difference w.r.t. redirection see CHANGES file entry for
1997-08-03.

> So whatever the problem is, it has been addressed no later than 2.8, so 
> there's nothing that developers would need to do here.  Still, I'd be 
> curious to know what's causing 2.6 and 2.7 not to connect...

All those versions have ^T to toggle TRACE, so if you are really curious
try that.

    Klaus