Re: lynx-dev Problem with Lynx and http://www.clicktv.com

[Bruce Toews]

Hi. I have taken the liberty to set up a dummy account on www.clicktv.com
to help illustrate the problem I am having. I should have done this
earlier, I'm sorry. It is set up exactly as my own account is set up. Go
to www.clicktv.com. Enter option five, for members. Go down to the sign-in
section, enter "lynxtest" as the username and "dummy" as the password,
without the quotes of course. Leave the cookie option unchecked and submit
the sign-in form. You are taken immediately to the basic search page. At
the top of the second screen is the key-word section. As an example, type
in jeopardy. Keep the "all channels" button checked as per the default.
Scroll down, leaving all options as is, until you get to "search" and
select it. What *hould* come up, and what does come up in earlier
versions, is a list of all the occurences of Jeopardy in my TV lineup for
the next two weeks. Instead, I get a blank search screen.

I hope this detail is of assistance. I do appreciate your prompt reply.

On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, Philip Webb wrote:

> 990309 Bruce Toews wrote: 
> > I am using Lynx version 2.8.1, release 2 on a Unix shell.
> > I was trying to access the search feature of  www.clicktv.com .
> > I entered my login name & password, then chose the search function.
> > all it did when I clicked on the "search" option was return me
> > to the search screen, with a blank form.  This feature worked fine
> > until our systems administrator upgraded our shell and thus Lynx.
>  
> using 2-8-1dev.19 , when i goto your URL there's a `logon' link;
> i go there & enter my name/password (i've registered just to test it),
> which takes me to a `listings' link titled `preferences'
> -- to see the current URL & selected link, use  =  -- ,
> on which `search' is not a link; going back to `logon',
> there is a `search' link, which i follow, bringing up a document
> whose name is `search' but whose title is still `preferences'
> entering a dummy zip code (98105, where i once lived),
> i am taken to an appropriate listing of cable TV services for Seattle,
> in a document named & titled `preferences':
> presumably, that's what you're aiming for.
> 
> possibly you are being misled by several documents with the same title,
> but if you have a different experience moving within the site,
> explain it with the same detail & someone may be able to help.
> remember that the site may have changed as well as your ISP's Lynx.
> 
>