Re: lynx-dev Lynx incompatibility with RFC 2068 HTTP 1.1 specs

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 07:45:51PM +0100, Lieven Tomme wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
> 
> To come back onto this topic: after taking the full 2.8.5 dev5 (18 nov
> 2001) lynx sources, configuring and compiling it on my Mandrake system,
> doesn't resolve my problem. You speak about newlines/spaces, but I was
> essentialy dealing with a lack of quotes ("").
> I guess we were on another track. So I need to refer to my previous post
> again.

ok - sorry (I did not remember it properly - I was thinking about an
earlier posting than the one I see dated the 28th).

I've made changes recently to forms (to work on file-upload), but did not
notice the lack of quoting then.  (I did notice that the xnyLAaB03X string
is hardcoded, and that I should revisit that area).

> Thanks again for your comments and efforts.
> A happy new year BTW to all subscribers of the lynx-dev list! Party time
> here ;)
> 
> Lieven
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Thomas Dickey [mailto:address@hidden 
> > Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 2:51 PM
> > To: address@hidden
> > Cc: address@hidden
> > Subject: Re: lynx-dev Lynx incompatibility with RFC 2068 HTTP 
> > 1.1 specs
> > 
> > 
> > On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 02:26:45PM +0100, Lieven Tomme wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >  
> > > Obviously, my previous post vanished somehow...
> > 
> > I believe I read it and responded to it.
> >   
> > > I believe to have discovered a lynx problem.
> > > Involved URL : http://sms.proximus.be/WMS/ProxiText?laf=oldstyle
> > > <http://sms.proximus.be/WMS/ProxiText?laf=oldstyle&lan=nl> 
> > &lan=nl (a 
> > > web page to transmit SMS towards a mobile phone network) 
> > Involved Lynx 
> > > version: 2.8.5 dev 2 (15 aug 2001), running on Mandrake 8.1
> > 
> > this was addressed in 2.8.5 dev 4:
> > 
> > 2001-11-08 (2.8.5dev.4)
> > 
> > * modify LYLegitimizeHREF() change from 2.8.4dev.21 to 
> > eliminate newlines from
> >   the HREF rather than converting them to spaces.  This fixes 
> > a problem with
> >   www.ebay.com which splits up HREFs with newlines.  Changing 
> > the newlines to
> >   spaces made the HREF no longer match, e.g., when it was 
> > built up from
> >   a CGI script (report by Morten Bo Johansen) -TD
> > 
> > The current version of lynx is 2.8.4
> > 
> > It's available at
> >     http://lynx.browser.org
> > ftp://lynx.isc.org/lynx-2.8.4
> > 2.8.5 Development & patches:
> >     http://lynx.isc.org/current/index.html
> > 
> > -- 
> > Thomas E. Dickey <address@hidden> 
> > http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-> island.net
> > 
> 
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