Re: [Lynx-dev] getting error while trying to access through lynx

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, 1 May 2006, neo wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We have an application which we recently migrated from BES to WAS, but I 
> get the following error when I try to access the application through 
> lynx, although it works fine if the application in BES environment.

(BES = Borland Enterprise Server)
(WAS = Websphere Application Server)

> Error:
> http/1.1 401 forbidden
>
> Please Note: Access to this web site requires that cookies pass
> properly between your web browser and this web server. Please check
> the following and retry your request:
>   * your web browser is configured to accept cookies.
>   * you are using a fully qualified domain name in your URL.
>
>   * http://server.domain.com/index.html is CORRECT.
>   * http://server/index.html is INCORRECT.
>   * http://123.123.22.22/index.html is INCORRECT.
>
> Please help me on the above.
>
> I have made changes to the cfg file to accept all cookies and the URL is 
> also correct still I am getting this error.

You might see more information with lynx's trace (lynx -trace creates a 
file such as $HOME/Lynx.trace).  Perhaps Websphere is requiring some sort 
of authentication such as NTLM.

Can you connect with another browser?

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