[PATCH to dev2] Re: lynx-dev Old bug returned (~/.mailcap and text/html)

[Vlad Harchev]

On Fri, 26 May 2000, Andrey A. Chernov wrote:

> As Mutt docs says:
> 
> Note: Some older versions of lynx contain a bug where they will
> check the mailcap file for a viewer for text/html.  They will find the line
> which calls lynx, and run it.  This causes lynx to continuously spawn itself 
> to
> view the object.
> 
> Now the old bug returned in 2.8.4dev.2
> 
> -- 
> Andrey A. Chernov
> <address@hidden>
> http://nagual.pp.ru/~ache/
> 

 Here is a patch to fix this (note it's absent in dev1 and 2.8.3dev*).

 Best regards,
  -Vlad

diff -ru old/src/HTInit.c fixed/src/HTInit.c
--- old/src/HTInit.c    Fri May 26 19:40:33 2000
+++ fixed/src/HTInit.c  Sun May 28 14:37:12 2000
@@ -324,8 +324,8 @@
        return(0);
     }
     *s++ = '\0';
-    if (!strncasecomp(t, "text/html", 9) ||
-       !strncasecomp(t, "text/plain", 10)) {
+    if (!strncasecomp(rawentry, "text/html", 9) ||
+       !strncasecomp(rawentry, "text/plain", 10)) {
        --s;
        *s = ';';
        CTRACE((tfp, "ProcessMailcapEntry: Ignoring mailcap entry: %s\n",


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