Re: [Lynx-dev] problem accessing password-protected sites

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 10:12:49PM +0900, Henry Nelson wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 07:39:36PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > with the code, it seems this chunk of trace should correspond in some way
> > to a trace you can make.  But the closest match I see in lynx's source
> 
> I accessed the site directly (127.0.0.1) without going through the
> proxy.  Lynx worked fine.  While I don't understand why authorization
> would fail only on the first attempt, it is somehow related to the proxy,
> and I guess not a Lynx problem.  Anyway snippets of the trace are below.
> 
> __Henry
> 
> ******** First [Enter] on link fails: ********
> 
> Referer: http://yuba.kcn.ne.jp/jugyou.html\r
> Authorization: Basic MDItMS01NTpTZWlCdXRzdQ==\r
> \r
> ----------------------------------
> Sending HTTP request.
> HTTP: WRITE delivered OK
> HTTP request sent; waiting for response.
> HTTP: Trying to read 1535
> HTTP: Read 0

Perhaps it's some sort of timing problem (still possible for lynx, I suppose).
Getting no reply at all suggests that either the request was malformed,
or as you suspect, a problem with the proxy.

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Thomas E. Dickey
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