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Re: LYNX-DEV http://www.netbuyer.com
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Foteos Macrides |
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Re: LYNX-DEV http://www.netbuyer.com |
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Mon, 19 May 1997 14:08:02 -0500 (EST) |
Foteos Macrides <address@hidden> wrote:
>Al Gilman <address@hidden> wrote:
>> From: Roger Hill <address@hidden>
>> Subject: LYNX-DEV http://www.netbuyer.com
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>> Gives me a blank screen every time, and \ does too.
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>>Something in your Lynx setup must not like the way they are doing
>>the redirect. What I get is the following kiss-off.
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>>Probably the usual user-agent filtering.
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> No. The server is returning a 200 ("OK", i.e., document
>follows) status, but then a Location: header and no body. If it
>intends redirection, it should return a 301, 302 or 303 status,
>and it should still have a body saying something about the
>redirection, and an actual link for the new location. It's an
>"extensible" Apache server, which someone has mangled rather
>than extended.
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> When you get a blank page, the first thing you should do
>is look at the source, as Roger did, to see if it has an invalid
>comment of the sort Lynx can deal with in minimal or historical
>mode. Otherwise, reload (Control-R) with trace on (Control-T),
>or send a head request (']') to see what headers the server is
>sending. These should be "reflex" Step 1, Step 2 behaviors for
>veteran Lynx users.
Now it's returning a correct status, and a body, for
redirection to that mindless "Downoad Netscape or MSIE" unpaid
(probably) advertisement.
lynx http://www.netbuyer.com -mime_header > temp.txt
HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily
Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 18:05:04 GMT
Server: Apache/1.2b7
Location: http://www.netbuyer.com/browser.html
Connection: close
Content-type: text/html
<HTML><HEAD>
<TITLE>302 Moved Temporarily</TITLE>
</HEAD><BODY>
<H1>Moved Temporarily</H1>
The document has moved <A HREF="http://www.netbuyer.com/browser.html";
>here</A>.<P>
</BODY></HTML>
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