lynx-dev Re: Upload

[Ilya Zakharevich]

On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 02:59:03AM -0500, I wrote:
> The only significant diffs I see are:
> 
> a) Both Lynx and Netscape specify content-length which has little
>    relationship to anything...;
> 
> b) Netscape specifies 'connection' => 'Keep-Alive';
> 
> c) Netscape does not specify Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
>    in MIME parts;
> 
> d) Netscape gives different Content-Type for the uploaded file, and
>    does not use/specify Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
> 
> Which one of these may be crucial for the upload failure?

I think none.  I modified my copy to

  b) Specify 'connection' => 'Keep-Alive' (do not ask me how);

  d) Do not use base64;

and the effect is still the same.  I do not think a) and c) matter.
Maybe the special HTML which Yahoo feeds to Lynx contains an invalid
link or somesuch...

Ilya

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