Re: lynx-dev Lynx suggestion

[The Vrana Family]

Leonid, thanks for the info.  I have 2.8.1rel1 on my PC, the latest
available, and I think it does not work that way.  So I guess I'll have to
wait for the next version to be released.  But I'm encouraged now, unless
someone else says that it's been that way for a long time.  Any idea when
2.8.2 will be released?

I assume that the latest version isn't available anywhere where the public
can run it (or in PC format).  I know 2.8.1rel2 is available at
telnet://lynx.bob.bofh.org, but it behaves the same as my 2.8.1rel1 in this
respect.  Thanks.

--Bruce Vrana

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> From: Leonid Pauzner <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden; address@hidden
> Subject: Re: lynx-dev Lynx suggestion
> Date: Thursday, February 11, 1999 7:48 AM
> 
> 6-Feb-99 08:16 The Vrana Family wrote:
> > I'm an avid Lynx user, using 2.7 on my ISP all the time, as well as the
PC
> > version of 2.8.  Thanks so much for a great program.
> 
> [...]
> Discussing Lynx implementation of USEMAP you wrote about the proper
> HTTP referer field:
> 
> > If this is not possible for some technical reason, how about the
following
> > alternative.  Some maps when you click on them, expand into a menu (not
the
> > one at treeloot, though).  You can then move to the link you want and
press
> > enter.  However, if the site requires the "click" to come from the
prior
> > page, it won't accept it properly.  It thinks (rightly so) that you're
> > coming from an invalid page - the temporary page with the image map.  I
> > suspect it's looking for the document.referrer to be the correct page.
> > Could lynx be modified to give the site the document.referrer of the
> > original page, rather than the locally rendered map?  A typical example
is
> > at www.successmarketplace.com/shops/benchmark, when you click on the
Free
> > Vacation banner.  (This one will work, but if you then enter another
one at
> > www.successmarketplace.com/shops/nmc, it's supposed to also work
because
> > it's a different site, but it isn't accepted, since it thinks you came
from
> > the same page again - and you did come from the same page, the locally
> > rendered map.  This is not a cache issue - same thing happens if you
quit
> > lynx and start over.)
> 
> >  Thanks so much for considering this request.
> 
> 
> I made a trace log from recent lynx version and seems the referer field
OK.
> (I have not checked when it was fixed :-).
> 
> 
>                 Lynx Trace Log (2.8.2dev.15)
> 
> User message: Trace ON!
> 
> LYpush[5]: address:LYNXIMGMAP:http://www.aha.ru/news/0229.html#b1
>         title:[USEMAP:back.gif]
> getfile: getting http://www.aha.ru/news/0103.html
> 
> [...]
> 
> Writing:
> GET http://www.aha.ru/news/0103.html HTTP/1.0
> Host: www.aha.ru
> Accept: text/html, text/plain, text/sgml, */*;q=0.01
> Accept-Encoding: gzip, compress
> Accept-Language: en,ru
> Accept-Charset: windows-1251;1.0,*;0.5, iso-8859-1;q=0.01,
us-ascii;q=0.01
> User-Agent: Lynx/2.8.2dev.15 libwww-FM/2.14
> Referer: http://www.aha.ru/news/0229.html
> 
> ----------------------------------
> Sending HTTP request.
> 
> [...]
> 
> 
>