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Re: lynx-dev Lynx doesn't send "Accept-Encoding:" header
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Thomas E. Dickey |
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Re: lynx-dev Lynx doesn't send "Accept-Encoding:" header |
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Wed, 28 Nov 2001 05:36:05 -0500 (EST) |
On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Hataguchi Takeshi wrote:
> Recently, Lynx doesn't seem to send "Accept-Encoding:" header in the
> presentation mode if PREPEND_BASE_TO_SOURCE is set to TRUE.
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> I think the following change might introduce this problem. I think
> this change should affect only downloading behavior, but shouldn't
> affect the presentation mode (normal interactive navigation with
> Lynx).
perhaps (it might be more complicated than that)
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> | 2001-08-15 (2.8.5dev.2)
> [snip]
> | * modify HTLoadHTTP() to omit "Accept-Encoding: gzip" if command-line
> "-base"
> | option is given. This makes
> | lynx -base -source excite.com
> | work as expected. Otherwise, excite.com will transmit the document
> gzip'd,
> | and the ensuing logic in HTSaveToFile() would see the mime-type as gzip
> | rather than text/html, and not prepend the base URL (report by Kai Shih
> | <address@hidden>) -TD
> --
> Takeshi Hataguchi
> E-mail: address@hidden
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