Re: lynx-dev submitting forms does not work -- always empty; version 2.8.1

[Serge Munhoven]

On Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 11:55:47AM -0400, Robert Brown wrote:
 >  This problem suddenly started occuring today.  (Does lynx have a Y2K bug?
 >  :-)  Maybe I have a lynx virus? :-)
 >  
 >  I can longer submit forms (method=GET).  Lynx always thinks the forms are
 >  empty and the server usually complains.  This is pretty annoying.
 >  
 >  For example, if I visit www.altavista.com (I accept all the cookies), when
 >  I submit the form (using 'x', just in case), I land on an empty query.
 >  When I type '=' to find the current URL, it's
 >  
 >  http://www.altavista.com/cgi-bin/query?
 >  
 >  and the 'Submit' on this new blank query page is
 >  
 >  http://www.altavista.com/cgi-bin/query?text
 >  
 >  (which is extremely non-sensical).  The 'Submit' on this new blank query 
 > page
 >  is completely non-functional -- Lynx does nothing at all.
 >  
Sorry, I do not have a direct answer to your problem, but the following
might be a useful debugging tool (for this and other cases) :

http://echo.znet.de:8888/

 - Serge