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lynx-dev Lynx bug : automatic following of links?
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Hans Ecke |
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lynx-dev Lynx bug : automatic following of links? |
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Wed, 30 Jun 1999 01:38:51 -0600 (MDT) |
...I send this message to lynx-dev 4-5 days ago. It seems it was lost or
something because i could not find it in the html-archives. So here the
second try:
Hi!
I'd like to report what I _think_ is a bug in lynx. I'm not really
familiar with the inner workings of either lynx or http so I just describe
what I see.
First some environment :
Lynx 2.8rel2 on AIX 4.3. The machine in question is a computer center
unix-server, i.e. multiuser mail/shell/... server.
Now the test html-file. I can reproduce the bug with it 100%
<HTML> <BODY>
<a href="http://www.yahoo.com";>
yahoo
</a>
<a href="http://www.webring.org/cgi-bin/webring?id=1&ring=mando&next5";>
evangelion
</a>
</HTML> </BODY>
What I encounter with the html-file above :
1.) I see what I'm supposed to see : an empty page except for two links in
the top line : yahoo and evangelion. the cursor is on the first link.
2.) I press "cursor-down". For what I know lynx is supposed to just move
the cursor to the second link, however what happens is
3.) at least 3 different pages at www.webring.org show up without me doing
anything, especially not pressing any key like "enter" or "cursor-right".
I land at last at some kind of feedback-page. Sometimes the bottomline
asks me if I "want to send an comment [n]". If I try to go back to the
original page via "cursor-left" it is of course impossible because I come
back with the cursor on the offending link and (3) happens all over again.
Okay, that was all. I tried to be as clear as possible. Please write me
back if I did not succeed. My apologies if this bug is a "feature" or
supposed behaviour or an already known bug. In this case a pointer to some
documentation would be great to get to know how to deal with it. I don't
know if the receiver of this message is a list or a person. If it's a list
than I'm not a member of it, so please CC: to me.
If you can't reproduce it and need a trace from my machine, please mail
me.
Thank you very much for your work on lynx, it is an unreplacable tool for
me.
Hans
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