Re: LYNX-DEV nifty "]" cmd -- BUT LOOK:

[Klaus Weide]

On Sat, 16 Nov 1996, David Combs wrote:

> Just saw mention of really neat "]" cmd for getting
> header info.  (Yeah, combs, rtfm!  ok, ok -- I will!)
> 
> Just for fun, try "]" on these (you WON'T like it):
> 
> 
> 
> URL: http://www.yahoo.com/text/headlines/
> 
> URL: http://www.slate.com/TOC/current/contents.asp
>  
> URL: http://www.yahoo.com/
> 
>  http://altavista.digital.com/
> 
> 
> Shows the whole freaking html-file!  (What'd they
> do, leave off an "end" marker?)

Congratulations, you dug up quite a collection there of sites/servers
that are, apparently, incapable of implementing a *basic* HTTP 1.0
method correctly...  So far I only knew of www.msnbc.com, a site always
good for examples of how not do do things.  I didn't know the ones you
listed were incompetent.

Anyway, you must be using an ancient Lynx version.  2.5 and 2.6 throw
the garbage away.  *Tell* those folks at Netcom to upgrade - after all
you pay them money, right?

  Klaus

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