LYNX-DEV Re: [SysReq #3509] [Staff #68091] Some pages lynx can't load

[Carl Buxbaum]

Yup, that was it.  I pointed our global mailcap entry at /dev/null and
got to the page fine.  Thanks for the help.  I'll followup with Oracle.

Carl

Klaus Weide writes:
 > On Fri, 26 Sep 1997, Carl Buxbaum wrote:
 > 
 > > Anyone know what's going on here?
 > > 
 > > This is failing with a 
 > > 
 > > 406 None Acceptable
 >  .....
 > >  >  > Name -> John Kirby comment -> The following domains give the
 > >  >  > correct IP using nslookup on your system.  However, using lynx to
 > >  >  > get to the addresses fails. I have reports from some of your POP
 > >  >  > customers that they are unable to reach these domains.  Telnet-ing
 > >  >  > to port 80 to these servers from your system works.
 > 
 > Try it with typing an "Accept:" header line with many (different) entries.
 > 
 > >  > I noticed these all run on oracle servers, and took a guess, sure
 > >  > enough, lynx fails in the same way at www.oracle.com.
 > >  > 
 > >  > The error message lynx shows is "406 None Acceptable"; I'm not sure,
 > >  > though, if it's lynx or oracle's server generating the message, and if
 > >  > the problem is inherent to lynx or can be solved by a configuration
 > >  > file under our control.
 > 
 > Definitely the server is generating the message.
 > 
 > Suspicion:
 > 
 >   The oracle server software cannot deal with requests with an "Accept:"
 >   header (or headers) with a large number of items (MIME types).
 > 
 > To test, and workaround:
 > 
 >   Try running Lynx without personal or global mailcap files that have many
 >   entries.  Change in lynx.cfg.
 > 
 >   (Lynx generates "Accept:" request headers from, among other things,
 >   mailcap files and VIEWER entries in lynx.cfg.  If there are many
 >   applicable entries in those files, the header gets long.)
 > 
 > If this is confirmed, it should be reported as a bug to Oracle.
 > If the server has to impose a fixed limit here, it would be more reasonable
 > to treat a request with too may items as if it had no "Accept:" header at
 > all, rather than failing with a 406 status.
 > 
 >      Klaus
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