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Re: lynx-dev lynx bug?
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Thomas Dickey |
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Re: lynx-dev lynx bug? |
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Sat, 11 Aug 2001 12:15:04 -0400 |
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On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 01:25:19PM -0400, Kai Shih wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm running Lynx Version 2.8.1rel.2 on a red hat box (though I can
> duplicate the same behavior on my newer Mandrake box, as well).
> I've tried to find some references to this problem on the web, but
> haven't had much success. I'd appreciate any help from the community on
> this one!
> When I add the '-base' option to some source dumps, I get a bunch
> of gibberish characters:
I can see this, too. Odd. I used 'file' to see what the output is,
and get this:
gzip compressed data, deflated, last modified: Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 1969, os:
MS-DOS
So I ran that through zcat ("gzip -dc -") and got a recognizable webpage.
Running lynx -trace shows this in the trace, which is probably related:
GET / HTTP/1.0
Host: excite.com
Accept: text/html, text/plain, application/x-troff-man, text/x-archive,
image/jpeg, image/*, text/sgml, video/mpeg, application/postscript, */*;q=0.01
Accept-Encoding: gzip, compress
Accept-Language: en
User-Agent: Lynx/2.8.5dev.1 libwww-FM/2.14 SSL-MM/1.4.1 OpenSSL/0.9.5a
That is, lynx tells excite.com that it can read gzip'd data, and excite.com
sends it that way - but lynx doesn't uncompress the output that it writes
to stdout. (Sounds like a bug in lynx). But it only happens when there's
a -base option.
>
> > lynx -source excite.com
> <html>
> <head>
> <title>My Excite Start Page</title>
> <meta http-equiv=refresh content=1200>
> </head>
> etc...
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> > lynx -base -source excite.com
> (gibberish stuff returned)
>
> Does anyone have suggestions for me? I'd really appreciate it!
>
> Thanks,
> Kai
>
>
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