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Re: LYNX-DEV Using Lynx woth web "forums"

From: Howard Kaikow
Subject: Re: LYNX-DEV Using Lynx woth web "forums"
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 18:25:36 -0500 
I just tried another experiment.

The problem is caused when I paste text that has more "lines" than the
allocated number of ROWS for the TextArea.

At 04:20 PM 3/26/1998 -0500, Howard Kaikow wrote:
>Following up, I went to www.wopr.com and grabbed the HTML that appears to
>be involved in posting. I give that below. I then did the following
>experiment.
>
>1. On my PC, I created a file that had only the following HTML, i.e., no
><BODY> or anything else. Call the file TextForm.htm.
>
>2. I opened TextForm.htm with Microsoft IE 3.
>
>3. I then chose an all text file of about a page in length
>
>4. I copied the file to the clipboard and then pasted it into the window
>for posting the message. 
>
>All of the text was properly included in the message, so IE and that
>particular HTML are not adverse to my pasting in such text. 
>
>I then copied TextForm.htm to my shell account at my ISP.
>
>Using Lynx 2.7.1, I opened TextForm.htm and pasted the text into the
>message area. Same problem as before. 
>
>Apparently some buffer is overflowing and the charaacters are getting sent
>to Lynx commands.
>
>Is there a way to rewrite the HTML to avoid this?
>
>Or is this problem inherent in Lynx used via a shell account?
>
>The following is TextForm.htm.
>
>
><P><FORM METHOD=POST ACTION="http://www.wopr.com/lounge/index.cgi?post";>
><P><CENTER><TABLE border=0><TR>
><TD ALIGN=RIGHT><P><STRONG>Name:</STRONG></TD><TD><INPUT TYPE=TEXT
>NAME="name" SIZE=40></TD></TR><TR>
><TD ALIGN=RIGHT><P><STRONG>Email:</STRONG></TD><TD><INPUT TYPE=TEXT
>NAME="email" SIZE=40></TD></TR><TR>
><TD ALIGN=RIGHT><P><STRONG>Subject:</STRONG></TD><TD><INPUT TYPE=TEXT
>NAME="subject" SIZE=40 MAXLENGTH=100></TD></TR><TR>
><TD COLSPAN=2 ALIGN=Center><p>To quote a live link, copy and edit
>this:<br>&lt;a href="http://www.wopr.com/"&gt;The WOPR
>Website&lt;/a&gt;<Br>For &lt;grin&gt; copy and paste this:
>&#38;lt;grin&#38;gt;<br>To force a line break, use &lt;br&gt;<br>for a tab
>use &#38;nbsp;&#38;nbsp;&#38;nbsp;&#38;nbsp; (ie 4
>spaces)<br><STRONG>Message:</STRONG><BR><TEXTAREA COLS=60 ROWS=5
>NAME="body" WRAP=VIRTUAL>
></TEXTAREA></TD></TR><TR>
><TH COLSPAN=2><!HR WIDTH=50%><P><INPUT TYPE=SUBMIT NAME="Preview"
>VALUE="Preview Message"> <INPUT TYPE=SUBMIT NAME="Post" VALUE="Post
>Message"></TH></TR></TABLE></CENTER></P></FORM>
>
>
>At 08:23 AM 3/25/1998 +0000, David Woolley wrote:
>>> These forums usually allow you to post/reply messages.
>>> When doing so with Lynx, I usually see a very limited text entry mechanism
>>> that allows, perhaps, a few lines of text to be entered.
>>
>>Can you give an example of the parameter on the TEXTAREA tag; it is quite
>>possible that the limit is in the forms, not in Lynx.  If they use INPUT
>>elements, the form should probably be considered broken.  It is also
>>just possible they are using GET, in which case the parameters of the
>>FORM tag would be useful.
>>
>>> It would be more effective if I could prepare such postings off line and
>>> then paste or include a file with the desired text into the forum's text
>>> entry area.
>>
>>If you have command line access, the best way of preparing offline is
>>probably to use -post, or provide the data on the command line (can
>>you supply the parameters of the FORM tag so we can see which it is
>>expecting).
>>
>>
>
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