Re: lynx-dev Quick Question on using -dump -auth together

[Klaus Weide]

On Sun, 13 Jun 1999 address@hidden wrote:

> On a Sparc running SunOS 4.1+ I find that I can run from the shell
> command line the following URL using Lynx 2.8.2:
>  
>  
> $ lynx -auth=userid:password
> "interactive.wsj.com/inap-bin/bb?story_ptr=1&search_string=AAT
> &max=30&page=8&list_entries=3&story_list=BW06/08++2204!
> BW05/10++2197!BW04/05++1772!&time=06/08+17:02"
>  
> Looking up 'interactive.wsj.com' first.
>  
> But that if I put in the '-dump' command it fails:
>  
> $ lynx -dump -auth=userid:password
> "interactive.wsj.com/inap-bin/bb?story_ptr=1&search_string=AAT
> &max=30&page=8&list_entries=3&story_list=BW06/08++2204!
> BW05/10++2197!BW04/05++1772!&time=06/08+17:02"
>  
> with the following message:
>  
> lynx: Can't access startfile http://
> followed by the rest of the URL.
>  
> Anyone have any idea what I am doing wrong?

In principle this should work.  At least the combination -dump -auth=...
seems to work fine for me, but I didn't test with your site.

Maybe there are some other things involved with that site, like cookies?

If in doubt, always try with a full URL, i.e. don't omit "http://";.

Check that -dump works right for sites that don't require authentication.

Do both variations with -trace, and compare the Lynx.trace files for
hints what is different.

> Thank you very much for any insight, even if it is just referring me
> to a more appropriate venue for questions.
>  
> Scott Fenton
>  
> P.S. I have put carriage-returns in the URLs above for readability.

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  Klaus