Re: [Lynx-dev] Bug report - hang

[Kim Holburn]

> On 2017/Jun/20, at 8:51 AM, Thomas Dickey <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 10:36:39PM +1000, Kim Holburn wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Is this the place for lynx bug reports?  Please reply to me directly.
>> 
>> I run this command:
>> 
>> lynx -dump  -read_timeout=10 -connect_timeout=10 -head 
>> 'https://www.bitvise.com/download-area' |more
>> 
>> lynx hangs.  If I use -mime_header instead of -head it works fine.
>> 
>> It only happens on some sites.  I'm not sure why.
> 
> nor I, but here's what I found while investigating:
> 
> a) first, I considered whether it was running into problems with cookie
>   prompts (but no, -accept-all-cookies had no effect).
> 
> b) perhaps the content encoding (there's no accept in the head request,
>   so that doesn't appear likely).
> 
> c) a dump works, but head doesn't.  Looking for comparison, I used
> 
>       curl -I 'https://www.bitvise.com/download-area'
> 
>   and found that also hangs.  If it had worked, I'd have looked further,
>   but suspect the problem isn't lynx.

Thanks for having a look.  Since it is a rare occurrence (but not unique just 
the latest one I have found), I expect it is definitely something weird the 
website is doing.  Yet should a webserver be able to hang a browser?

> 
>> lynx -version
>> Lynx Version 2.8.9dev.1 (12 Mar 2014)
>> libwww-FM 2.14, SSL-MM 1.4.1, GNUTLS 3.3.8, ncurses 5.9.20140913(wide)
>> Built on linux-gnueabihf Jun 20 2015 15:25:04
>> (jessie on raspberrypi)
>> 
>> Lynx Version 2.8.8rel.2 (09 Mar 2014)
>> libwww-FM 2.14, SSL-MM 1.4.1, OpenSSL 1.0.2k, ncurses 6.0.20170422
>> Built on darwin15.3.0 Mar 10 2016 18:48:15
>> (Macport)
>> 
>> 
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