Re: lynx-dev mozilla

[Leonid Pauzner]

26-Apr-99 06:51 Eugene I. Ostrenski wrote:

>> Try to download this URL to a local file, it should be seen properly
>> without any problems (at least for lynx 2.8+).
>> I guess the remote URL you mention here have its own "charset" in HTTP hea

> der
>> (you could check this by trying HEAD with '[' key in lynx) and that is bro

> ken.
>>
>> According to HTTP/HTML spec, the HTTP headers have a priority over embedde

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>> META HTML strings and Lynx and Internet Explorer do so.
>> Unfortinately, Netscape browser have a different feeling
>> and try META charset first. So you actually have a broken page
>> seen OK with Netscape and trying to complain Lynx...
>> The solution that works for both Netscape and others will be to remove
>> an extra charset header (any) and rely on this. Apache/RUS server
>> remove META charset especially for this needs, if configured properly.
> __
> Doug Kaufman


>    I've downloaded the unreadable
>  page, There is no charset at the header. I think the shortest way for me is

There was a definite example with META charset in the original posting
(you ommit the most important part off the letter by some unknown reason).

Send us the URL in question and your lynx version
(I have no idea what "doslynx" means in precise terms).

>  to
> copy  working LYNX parameters. I can send you this problem page. Have you
> got enough time to try to browse it with your LYNX?

No.

>             Eugene.