Re: LYNX-DEV bug or feature? (403)

[Ismael Cordeiro]

On Fri, 8 Aug 1997, Laura Eaves wrote:

> I just tried downloading a file from my public_html dir to a remote
> system. I discovered the file was not readable.
> (There is a link to it in my web page.  In fact, it was my copy of
> fotemods.zip. See http://www.intac.com/~leaves/, link 11. I'll leave this
> old page up for a few days in case someone wants to try fixing this bug.)
> 
> What I saw when I tried to download it:
> After hitting d I got the following:
> ...
> Alert!: HTTP/1.0 403 Forbidden
> (something about text/html)

Probably you forgot to set the read permissions for fotemods.zip to all.
Lynx is just acting accordingly to what your HTTP server reports. Besides,
some links on your page are reported as non-existant.

> What I think it should do is render the above html and not put up the
> Download page at all.

That's a good idea.

Ismael

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