Re: lynx-dev Apparent bug

[Jan Hlavacek]

On Wed, Aug 19, 1998 at 07:16:16PM -0700, Doug Kaufman wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, John R Daily NONLILLY wrote:
> 
> > Lynx version 2.8rel.2
> > OS: Solaris 2.6
> > 
> > When accessing www.genomesystems.com via a graphical browser, I found the
> > following imagemap URL I wished to access via lynx. This URL performs a
> > redirection to an ftp server, and at some point in this process lynx dumps
> > core.
> > ...
> > The URL in question:
> > http://www.genomesystems.com/GDA/getsprdgda.map?60,200
> 
> The same problem occurs with lynx 2.8.1dev.9 on SunOS. A trace file
> shows that lynx thinks that the file from the ftp server is text/plain
> and is calling split_line from GridText a very large number of times
> until a memory error occurs. A workaround is to put a mime type for
> files ending in suffix SG in your .mime.types file. You will then be
> able to download the file. I don't know what the proper mime type would
> be, but you could use the following line in .mime.types.
> image/x-sg      SG


Interesting.  With Lynx Version 2.8.1dev.6 on SunOS 5.6,  lynx also
thinks it's a text file,  but has no trouble displaing it as pile of
garbage on the screen.  No error,  no crash. 

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