Re: [Lynx-dev] Bug report - hang

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 09:22:49AM +1000, Kim Holburn wrote:
> 
> > 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?

It might be nice to implement some timeout, true (patches welcome).

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey <address@hidden>
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