Re: LYNX-DEV What's wrong here?

[Klaus Weide]

On Fri, 1 Nov 1996, Filip M Gieszczykiewicz wrote:

> You (Klaus Weide) wrote:
> > On Fri, 1 Nov 1996, Filip M Gieszczykiewicz wrote:
> > > http://www.autosteel.org/home/visitors/web-feedback.html
> > > Greetings. As the last action of this cgi-bin, I get a Server Error
> > > and a blank screen. I'm not sure if that happens before or after
> > > the contents of the form are sent... can I find out?
> >                                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > I think you know about the -trace flag and the trace toggle key...
> > Any reason to think this is something different from "the POST redirection
> > problem"?
> 
> Greetings. Yes, I know about trace... however, when I try:
> lynx -trace <url> | tee trace.log
> I get a slide-show (and never have a chance to fill the form in and
> send it in) AND, on top of that, I get only a 15K file which
> contains nothing but escape codes... when stripped, only a few
> dozen lines of the form...

Redirecting/piping the standard output (stderr) of an interactive 
Lynx process, ie. without -dump or -source etc., usually doesn't
make sense.  (Unless you *want* those escape codes to study them...)

> It would be nice if lynx let you work as usual but would internally
> "tee" all the logging info into some file...

  lynx -trace <url>  2>trace.log

works fine with a decent shell.  ("2" stands for stderr, the above means
only stderr is redirected while stdout is not.)  [csh and tcsh probably
don't qualify for this purpose, so use something else.]
 
> Do you mean than POST redirection is not supported? When I say
> "y" to the question, I get the Server Error message... BTW, what
> the heck is a Post Redirection?

I thought as a subscriber to lynx-dev you couldn't have possibly missed
all the talk about this topic. :(

Please see 
     * Redirects and form methods [3] deconfused
from Al's FAQ page at
    URL: http://www.access.digex.net/~asgilman/lynx/FAQ/Als_picks.html ,
or         
    URL: http://lynx.cc.ukans.edu/lynx-dev/9609/0796.html
and the archives in general.

Then please inform address@hidden that he has a problem.

_After that_, should that Webmaster be unresponsive und you still willing
to deal with the site at all, have a look at the patches page..

  Klaus

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