Re: screenshot with rendering Was:Re: [Lynx-dev] No rendering of http://www.google.de

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sat, 27 Dec 2008, Y P wrote:

> Hi,
> cf. attach;
> tested with a very old Lynx 2.8.4 on a Debian o s:
> it works.

The problem that I'm aware of doesn't depend on the version of lynx, but 
on the mime.types file (which is updated for various packages).  I don't
know whether it's solely the size of that file, or some performance 
improvement common to the servers, but it became an issue a few years ago.

In my current version that would make it send "Accept" headers more than 
3000 bytes.  Some servers are known to choke on headers above 1000 bytes 
(and I seem to recall one report with about 500 bytes).

You can see the "Accept" lines in the trace file generated by lynx's 
"-trace" option.

> (attach)
>
> On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 09:49:48PM +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> > Elimar Riesebieter dixit:
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > connecting to http://www.google.de a less session of unformatted
> > > source of page is displayed. http://www.google.de/linux renders
> > > fine. Any hints?
> >
> > Tun hier beide, erm, both work fine here (latest lynx development
> > version). Although I do get problems with search results:
> >
> > Accept invalid cookie path=/search as a prefix of '/'? yes
> >
> > These are for .com though. Seems to be new, but then, Google is
> > evil and doesn't care for browser compatibility at all (this and
> > the fact that their Maps service broke with Opera 9). Someone
> > might tell them that.
> >
> > What Lynx version do you use? It even works with old 2.8.6dev.16
> > for me. Try going to the cookie jar (^J) and removing all of the
> > cookies for Google, then reloading the page.
> >
> > bye,
> > //mirabilos
> > --
> > Sometimes they [people] care too much: pretty printers [and syntax highligh-
> > ting, d.A.] mechanically produce pretty output that accentuates irrelevant
> > detail in the program, which is as sensible as putting all the prepositions
> > in English text in bold font.   -- Rob Pike in "Notes on Programming in C"
> >
> >
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