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Re: lynx-dev download options resend

From: Thomas E. Dickey
Subject: Re: lynx-dev download options resend
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 09:39:12 -0400 (EDT) 
On Sun, 20 Jul 2003, Stef Caunter wrote:

> This is the internal lynx page presented after any
> (D)ownload has completed.

but I don't see it in the copies I've built.  It's possible that it's
trashed memory - though the mechanism doesn't seem apparent.  There was
one fix that I made to dev.16, patch at

        ftp://invisible-island.net/temp/lynx2.8.5dev.16a.patch.gz

> It used to default to Save to disk. Now it defaults to this
> help link intstead. What I was trying to show in the
> html was this help link in question, which goes to a
> trill-home.com page and redirects to garbage, which I know
> has nothing to do with lynx.
>
> What I was wondering was is this (broken) help link supposed
> to be the new default choice on the download options page? Seems
> odd, since it has been "Save to disk" for some time.

no - it doesn't happen for me (checking with a fresh install using the
patch indicated above, and downloading from my webpage), e.g.,

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="content-type" CONTENT="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1">
<TITLE>Download Options</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<H1>Download Options (Lynx Version 2.8.5dev.16)</H1>
<PRE>
<EM>Downloaded link:</EM> ftp://invisible-island.net/add/add.tar.gz
<EM>Suggested file name:</EM> add.tar.gz

Download options:
   <A
HREF="LYNXDOWNLOAD://Method=-1/File=/var/tmp/UoWHSb/L6072-1221TMP.bin/SugFile=add.tar.gz">Save
 to disk</A>
</PRE>
</BODY>
</HTML>


> --Stef
>
> > On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 address@hidden wrote:
> >
> > > Resending this (again):
> > >
> > > <title>Download Options</title>
> > > </head>
> > > <body>
> > > <h1>Download Options (Lynx Version 2.8.5dev.16), <a 
> > > href="http://www.trill-home.com/lynx/lynx_help/Lynx_users_guide.html#RemoteSource";>help</a></h1>
> >
> > What is the url for the page you are viewing?  (If it's lynx.browser.org,
> > I cannot fix it; I thought I had fixed all of the ones on lynx.isc.org,
> > and it has been fixed in the source for a few months).
> >
> > >
> > > I have not seen this help link before, nor have I ever had it be the
> > > default choice for this page.
> > >
> > > Furthermore, the link does _not_ display anything to do with lynx. The
> > > referred to host is redirecting to garbage.
> > >
> > >
> > > Lynx Version 2.8.5dev.16 (01 Jun 2003)
> > > libwww-FM 2.14, SSL-MM 1.4.1, OpenSSL 0.9.7-beta3
> > > Built on openbsd3.3 Jul 13 2003 13:01:41
> > >
> > > Compiled with --enable-file-upload --enable-read-eta
> > >
> > > --Stef
> > >
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> > >
> >
> > --
> > T.E.Dickey <address@hidden>
> > http://invisible-island.net
> > ftp://invisible-island.net
> >
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> >
>
>
>
> Stefan Caunter
> Faculty,  Computer Science and Information Technology
> Mohawk College of Applied Arts and Technology
> P.O. Box 2034, Hamilton, ON, Canada L8N 3T2
> (905)-575-1212 x 3654
> address@hidden
>
>
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T.E.Dickey <address@hidden>
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net

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