Re: LYNX-DEV Unable to read SCMP Text Internet Edition via Lynx 2.8

[Philip Webb]

980324 Yusuf Goolamabbas wrote:
> I am using Lynx 2.8 on a Solaris/Sparc 2.6 machine compiled with slang
> when I tried to click on a story link on the text edition
> of the South China Morning Post:  www.scmp.com/
> This is the error which I receive
> 
>                             Error Performing Query
> 
>    The form you just filled in requires the top entry to be filled in.
>    Please fill in that entry in the form and resubmit the form
> 
> Till last week, I was able to access the site via Lynx 2.7.1.
> I have been doing so for over 4 months.
> I would request someone else to verify they receive the same error
> It could be that SCMP site is broken.  I can access it via Netscape 4.04 
 
i registered (thanx for telling me: it's a well-known paper)
& got the same error when trying to access stories in today's paper.
the source contains the following:

<BASE HREF="http://www.scmp.com/news/index.idc?";>
...
                <b>Aftermath:</b>  debris litters Wong Chu Road after a blast 
ripped out the back door and the top of a container carrying 120 motorcycles to 
the Yau Ma Tei cargo. <i>Picture by David Wong</i>
                                <A 
HREF="template/templates.idc?artid=19980325004526014&top=front&template=Default.htx&maxfieldsize=1328">Full
 Story</A>

i don't know whether this is a bad HREF: can anyone enlighten us?

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