Re: lynx-dev Anyone able to access hotmail.com these days

[Doug Kaufman]

On Sat, 12 Aug 2000, Kim DeVaughn wrote:

> It seems that hotmail.com has been slowly getting less and less
> "lynx-friendly" over the past ~6-8 months, or so.
> 
> Now, however, I cannot even get to their initial page.  I just get
> the following:
> 
>  Looking up www.hotmail.com.
>  Making HTTP connection to www.hotmail.com.
>  Sending HTTP request.
>  HTTP request sent; waiting for response.
>  HTTP/1.1 302 Redirected
>  Data transfer complete
> 
>  lynx: Start file could not be found or is not text/html or text/plain
>        Exiting...

I am a little confused by what is going on. I get the same message using
2.8.3dev.18. But a lynx -head shows:

HTTP/1.1 302 Redirected
Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2000 16:49:46 GMT
Location: http://lc1.law5.hotmail.passport.com/cgi-bin/login

Going manually to that address requests two cookies, but you get
the login screen regardless of whether cookies are accepted or
not. Is the problem that on redirect the file is not text/html
or text/plain? Looking at the trace file, it appears to be
"message/x-http-redirection". Trying "lynx -force_html" doesn't work
to fix this. Does that only work on the first URL, before redirection
takes place?
                               Doug

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