Re: lynx-dev Lynx2-8-2rel.1 (Execute Problems Under AIX 4.3.1.0)

[Klaus Weide]

> > Everything seemed to be fine until I tried, of all things, an 
> > advertisement URL at the Salt Lake Tribune Newspaper. The URL I tried is: 
> >  
> > http://209.210.181.2/scripts/accipiter/adclick.exe/AREA=SLT.HOME/ADSIZE= 
> > BANNER1?1 

I'm sure that was supposed to be all one line.  But your trace shows that
somehow the line break survived as a space.  How did you manage to do that,
Tom?  It should be impossible...

On Tue, 15 Jun 1999 address@hidden wrote:

> I can't connect to this - need more clarification perhaps.
> >  
> > It is the first "advertisement" URL on the Salt lake Tribunes's web page 
> > (that URL is http://www.sltrib.com). 

Just follow the link from there.

> > This particular URL locks 
> > lynx2-8-2rel.1 up. By comparison, lynx2-8-1pre.11 doesn't lock up (nor 
> > does it have the compile/link problems). Instead, it reports the URL as 
> > "not found on this server". 

What exactly does "lock up" mean?  Can it be interrupted with 'z'?
What does lynx -trace give?

By the way, are you using a proxy by any chance?

> > Now, it is possible that the game I played to 
> > get the HTTCP.c module to compile/link could have something to do with 
> > this lock up condition.  At any rate, that's what I found. Hope it's not 
> > too hard to fix. Thanks for all your good work. 

Can you reproduce the problem with other URLs where the hostname part is
a dotted-quad IP address?
> ...  
> > Mike Gravitz 
> > address@hidden 

    Klaus