Re: [Lynx-dev] Lynx HTML Parsing Bug

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 09:37:33AM -0400, Isaac Morland wrote:
> There is a bug in Lynx' handling of at least some HTML tags.  If 
> whitespace precedes the closing '>' of "</script>" then problems occur 
> (see below for Unix and Lynx version, as well as the HTML source obtained 
> using -mime_header and the result of using -dump).  If the space is 
> removed, then -dump shows the title and line of text as expected.

I get this result with a current version of lynx (cut/paste including
shell prompts):
~ (105) lynx -dump http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~ijmorlan/lynxbug.html          
                                    Test Page

   This is a test page.
~ (106) 

So I think I fixed that a while ago.

The current version of lynx is 2.8.6

It's available at
        http://lynx.isc.org/lynx2.8.6/
2.8.7 Development & patches:
        http://lynx.isc.org/current/index.html

> This was detected because I have an HTML-generation library that puts a 
> newline ('\n') before every '>' in order to put the output on multiple 
> lines without ever inserting unwanted whitespace between tags.  The W3C 
> validator has no problem with this and I have never observed any other 
> browser to have a problem.
> 
> Since I'm reporting things I'd like changed in Lynx, I will also mention 
> that I'd really like -mime_header to *always* just show what comes back 
> from the server.  If the server response is a 401, then the server headers 
> are not shown; instead the Lynx error message about access denied is 
> shown.

thanks - will add to my to-do list...

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