Re: [Lynx-dev] Problem accessing www.newsweek.com

[Henry Nelson]

On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 11:16:25PM -0800, Doug Kaufman wrote:
> 4 or 5 I get what appears to be garbage characters on the screen.
> The site seems to always send the page gzip'd. I wonder if this is
> a server problem, sometimes sending improperly compressed data,
> or whether it is a lynx problem. Can someone else try and see
> if you see the same problem? The URL (which gets redirected) is
> "http://www.newsweek.com/";.

While it's not the same problem, on the first try I got a totally
blank page.  When I tried to get the source (\), that was blank, too.

So, I changed my character set to UTF8 and tried again.  The first try,
I got a warning about some transmission problem; the fetch aborted.  On
the second try, I got a page with "garbage characters".

So, now I change back to EUC-JP, and the page comes up!  Not only that,
but I can follow links on the page, and those pages come up fine, too.

I confirmed one more time; maybe someone else would like to try:
 1) Fire up Lynx.
 2) Change your display character set via the O)ptions page to
    "UNICODE (UTF-8)".
 3) G)oto "http://www.newsweek.com/";.
 4) Change your display character set back to whatever is normal for you.

Some problem with the "http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032542/"; site, i.e.,
you need a cookie telling them you have UTF8 support??

__Henry


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