lynx-dev Problem with META HTTP-EQUIV="refresh". Is it a bug?

[Fiber McGee]

Re-posted on behalf of Gennady Stupakov <address@hidden>.  The 
original message contained a meta tag, and the mail list here thought that 
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> I want to use lynx to get to the Bank of America web site:
> https://money.bankamerica.com/cgi-bin/SingleSignonServlet
>
> The html document returned from the server has a form for input of
> user ID and a password. But it also has a refresh command
> in it: <META HTTP-EQUIV="refresh" 
> CONTENT="0;URL='/help/un-supported_browser.html">
> If I use IE, I type in the user ID and password, click the submit button
> and get to the next page. In lynx, clicking the submit button brings me
> to the highlighted link of the refresh URL only. I checked with the
> trace option, for some reason the browser does not send my request to
> the server, so I never get the second page from the web site.
>
> What is wrong here? Is it a bug, or I am doing something wrong?
> I use the latest version dev19 compiled for cygwin.
>
> Gennady.


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