Re: [Lynx-dev] Bug report - hang

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 10:36:39PM +1000, Kim Holburn wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is this the place for lynx bug reports?  Please reply to me directly.
> 
> I run this command:
> 
> lynx -dump  -read_timeout=10 -connect_timeout=10 -head 
> 'https://www.bitvise.com/download-area' |more
> 
> lynx hangs.  If I use -mime_header instead of -head it works fine.
> 
> It only happens on some sites.  I'm not sure why.

nor I, but here's what I found while investigating:

a) first, I considered whether it was running into problems with cookie
   prompts (but no, -accept-all-cookies had no effect).

b) perhaps the content encoding (there's no accept in the head request,
   so that doesn't appear likely).

c) a dump works, but head doesn't.  Looking for comparison, I used

        curl -I 'https://www.bitvise.com/download-area'

   and found that also hangs.  If it had worked, I'd have looked further,
   but suspect the problem isn't lynx.

> lynx -version
> Lynx Version 2.8.9dev.1 (12 Mar 2014)
> libwww-FM 2.14, SSL-MM 1.4.1, GNUTLS 3.3.8, ncurses 5.9.20140913(wide)
> Built on linux-gnueabihf Jun 20 2015 15:25:04
> (jessie on raspberrypi)
> 
> Lynx Version 2.8.8rel.2 (09 Mar 2014)
> libwww-FM 2.14, SSL-MM 1.4.1, OpenSSL 1.0.2k, ncurses 6.0.20170422
> Built on darwin15.3.0 Mar 10 2016 18:48:15
> (Macport)
> 
> 
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