Re: lynx-dev problem with -post_data

[Vieri Di_paola]

On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Klaus Weide wrote:

> On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Vieri Di_paola wrote:
> 
> > What do you mean by submitting a small example by hand?
> 
> "Do whatever you did before to submit something with Lynx to the same
> service, when you typed in the data-to-be-submitted into an interactive
> form text area rather than taking it from a file."
> 
> If that doesn't apply then nevermind.
> 
> > Suppose my p.in must be in x-www-form-urlencoded format, what does this
> > mean?



Yes, it is x-www-form-urlencoded.




> 
> Write significant line ends as %13%10.
> Replace significant spaces by + or %20.
> Replace actual + characters (if any) by %2B.
> Replace actual % characters (if any) by %25.
> 


I get the same error message except this time I "SEE" the characters
listed above. In other words:
PROGRAM+blastn%10 etc...


I don't want to insist too much on this for I found an alternative
solution (thanks to you - rep_client, remember?).

Regards,

Vieri Di Paola


> And so on, if there are more characters that need escaping: use
> their ASCII hex values as above.
> 
> > How should I post it?
> 
> As before, presumably.
> 
> > Are there any Lynx command line arguments that
> > I'm overlooking?
> 
> I don't know of any.
> 
> > Unfortunately I can't access the archives because my dumb university won't
> > allow me to go to "non-educational" sites (i.e. "non-university" sites).
> 
> That's silly.
> 
>    Klaus
>