Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx sends ridiculously long Accept: lines (configuration problem?)

[Foteos Macrides]

Zack Weinberg <address@hidden> wrote:
>My copy of Lynx sends an 1300 character Accept: line in the HTML

        1023.


>dialogue.  Certain web servers choke on this and drop the connection,
>producing an "Unexpected network read error" error message.  In
>particular, the webserver built into Windows NT 4.0 (workstation, I
>think -- it's not my box) has problems.
>
>I am fairly sure this is a configuration issue on my end, but I've
>been unable to find any documented way to fix it.  I don't want to
>remove entries from my mime.types file.
>
>version is 2.7.1; would upgrading help?

        Yes.  Lynx v2.7.2 and the development code make them a
series with a maximum 254 line length.

        Servers should be able to accomodate 1024 line lengths as
a minimum, though, so complain to MicroSoft, which necessitated
the change to the less efficent maximum length.

                                Fote

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