Re: [Lynx-dev] Re: failed to visit google

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, 7 May 2004, Walter Ian Kaye wrote:

> At 10:33a -0400 05/07/2004, Larry W. Virden didst inscribe upon an
> electronic papyrus:
>
> >HTTP: Rx: HTTP/1.0 400 Bad Request
> >HTTP: Scanned 2 fields from line_buffer
> >--- Talking HTTP1.
> >
> >Alert!: HTTP/1.0 400 Bad Request
>
> Hey, that reminds me. I often get 400's in Lynx, due to unencoded
> spaces in a URL. Other browsers don't do that, so presumably they
> probably encode them before trying to send the request. Is there a
> way to make Lynx encode them?
> Example: <A HREF="http://www.acme.com/foo?bar=One Two&baz=Three Four">

that sounds familiar (though I'm probably recalling refresh-URLs).

There's no option for this - it's built into the code.

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