Re: lynx-dev Handling non html links

[Walter Ian Kaye]

At 06:08a -0400 08/01/2002, Thomas Dickey didst inscribe upon an 
electronic papyrus:

>  > I have been using Lynx to test how our site appears in a pure text browser.
>  > One thing that is causing me a problem though is links to PDFs, Word docs
>  > etc.  Unlike "real" browsers, Lynx doesn't seem to respond to 
> these files by
>  > offering to download them.  Instead it gives a 404 error.  Is this a bug in
>  > Lynx or am I doing something wrong (either with the serving of 
> these files or
>  > with using Lynx)?
>
> I occasionally download pdf files with lynx, and don't recall problems with
> that.  Do you have a test url in mind?

My money's on spaces in a filename, and an unencoded reference.

-Walter
 who just got the first spam addressed his lynx-dev email address
 (looks like someone's harvesting from this list)



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