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Re: lynx-dev Anyone able to access hotmail.com these days
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Patrick |
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Re: lynx-dev Anyone able to access hotmail.com these days |
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Sat, 12 Aug 2000 03:18:22 -0700 |
In "lynx-dev Anyone able to access hotmail.com these days"
[12/Aug/2000 Sat 00:39:09]
Kim DeVaughn wrote:
> It seems that hotmail.com has been slowly getting less and less
> "lynx-friendly" over the past ~6-8 months, or so.
>
> Now, however, I cannot even get to their initial page. I just get
> the following:
>
> Looking up www.hotmail.com.
> Making HTTP connection to www.hotmail.com.
> Sending HTTP request.
> HTTP request sent; waiting for response.
> HTTP/1.1 302 Redirected
> Data transfer complete
>
> lynx: Start file could not be found or is not text/html or text/plain
> Exiting...
I got redirected to;
http://lc5.law5.hotmail.passport.com/cgi-bin/login
That is where you end up [or don't end up this time], right?
> This is with an SSL'ified 2.8.3dev.17 (yes, I need to update).
>
> I suspect javascript is at the root of this problem.
Could it be the way you have SSL installed? I had no trouble
using two earlier versions, with no SSL support, finding a plain
form with username, pass, and submit fields [plus some advertising. . .].
> Anyone else able to access their site these days ...?
>
> /kim
>
> PS: It's not critical for me to use hotmail ... I keep half-a-dozen
> or so freebee email accounts around from various places, primarily
> for testing lynx against.
PPS: Just wondered, anyone had trouble accessing Webcrawler?
I think what's happening is MacLynx having a bad reaction
to a Lynx-friendly site, because it sends a gzipped version
of the main page [almost all pages, actually] to Lynx user-agents.
However, messing with the User (A)gent option doesn't change
it. I get an "Error uncompressing temporary file!" alert.
No trouble with Lynx from a shell acct though.
Patrick
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Re: lynx-dev Anyone able to access hotmail.com these days, Doug Kaufman, 2000/08/12