Re: LYNX-DEV Re: Bobcat problem (fwd)

[Foteos Macrides]

Wayne Buttles <address@hidden> wrote:
>Does anyone have an old copy of lynx that can tell me why this happens? 
>(at least) Lynx 2.4.2 and below can't download http://www.intersoft.cz. 
>They get "Cannot display this documnet on this terminal S)ave C)ancel" 
>
>It is definately fixed on 2.6 and above, but I can't figure out what got
>fixed.  Anyone have any ideas?

        It returns a  Content-Type: text/html;charset=foo  header. I
added parameter handling for Content-Type in v2.5.  Prior versions will
treat the parameter as part of the MIME subtype string, making the
overall MIME type unknown and therefore forcing a download offer.

                                Fote

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