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Re: lynx-dev lynx bug?


From: Thomas Dickey
Subject: Re: lynx-dev lynx bug?
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 19:49:50 -0400
User-agent: Mutt/1.2.5i

On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 01:25:19PM -0400, Kai Shih wrote:
> Hi,
>       I'm running Lynx Version 2.8.1rel.2 on a red hat box (though I can
> duplicate the same behavior on my newer Mandrake box, as well).  
>       I've tried to find some references to this problem on the web, but
> haven't had much success.  I'd appreciate any help from the community on
> this one!
>       When I add the '-base' option to some source dumps, I get a bunch
> of gibberish characters:
> 
>       > lynx -source excite.com 
>       <html>
>       <head>
>       <title>My Excite Start Page</title>
>       <meta http-equiv=refresh content=1200>
>       </head>
>       etc...
> 
>       > lynx -base -source excite.com
>       (gibberish stuff returned)
> 
>       Does anyone have suggestions for me?  I'd really appreciate it!

this makes it work (suppresses the compression so the later stage sees the
text/html that it expects):

--- HTTP.c.orig Sat Jul 14 22:19:37 2001
+++ HTTP.c      Sun Aug 12 19:44:27 2001
@@ -675,7 +675,8 @@
       first_Accept = FALSE;
       len = 0;
 
-      HTSprintf(&command, "Accept-Encoding: %s, %s%c%c",
+      if (!LYPrependBaseToSource)
+         HTSprintf(&command, "Accept-Encoding: %s, %s%c%c",
                    "gzip", "compress", CR, LF);
 
       if (language && *language) {

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey <address@hidden>
http://dickey.his.com
ftp://dickey.his.com

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