Re: [Lynx-dev] off-topic: proxies, sockets and http requests

[Stef Caunter]

Okay, so there is no proxy server from your post.
What is the result of simple telnet GET requests to port 80?
Can you maintain a connection with an HTTP/1.1 request using this method?
Do you have an example of the fetch program in question?
Aside from "guessing" server responses to speed things up, lynx runs a fairly
straightforward network socket connection to port 80 AFAIK.

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On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, J Willard Gibbs wrote:

> Sorry for the bother but if anyone can clue me in I would really appreciate
> it.
>
> Thing is, on my heavily policed network, lynx can fetch html documents from
> a given website with no problem. However with C(BSD Sockets), Perl (LWP) and
> Java (URL/URLConnection), I get connection timeouts every time. Java even
> provides automatic Proxy detection although when I do that part in isolation
> it seems to indicate that it would try to use a direct connection.
>
> What is lynx (or IE for that matter) doing to make the connection to the
> server, that my simplistic fetch programs don't do?
>
> I tried looking at the lynx source code but it was simply too large and
> complex for me to try to put together some ideas on this specific question.
> It is also not possible for me to read the network directly, or else I would
> simply observe what lynx is doing at that level, and emulate it.
>
> Thanks!
>
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