Re: lynx-dev binary file

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 04:20:32AM -0500, Bob Izenberg wrote:
> The message below from John Huang
> <address@hidden> was forwarded
> by the list moderator.
> 
> >Hi,
> >
> >   When I go to a particular site, normally it works very well.
> >However, once in a while, when I go to the same address, I get the
> >following prompt instead of my usual rendered html page:

is this something that you can repeat, or is it occasional?
(a url would help, so we can try it ourselves)

> >Read 1023 bytes of data.
> >HTTP/1.1 200 Document follows
> >text/html;charset=iso_8859-1
> >D)ownload, or C)ancel
> >
> >   From reading the Users Guide, it seems that lynx thinks that it has
> >encountered a binary file.  I'm wondering whether somebody could tell
> >me why this is happening.  Is it a problem with the server, or with
> >lynx?  Can I fix it somehow?  By the way, during the same time when
> >lynx has this problem, I can still use Netscape to access that site.
> >
> >   Thanks much for any help in advance.
> >
> >John Huang
> >address@hidden
> 
> 
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