Re: [Lynx-dev] lynx not honoring apache document root path

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sun, 15 Jul 2007, Hendrik-Jan Heins wrote:

> Hello list,
>
> I just stumbled upon a really weird problem with lynx:
> There is this website: http://linux-wless.passys.nl
> If you go there with lynx, choose for instance the first brandname of
> the list, and submit the query, you get an Apache2 error message of

hmm-

Server: Apache^M
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.4.4-8+etch4^M
Set-Cookie: linux-wless[]=Linux+wireless+website; expires=Sun, 15 Jul 2007 
16:5>
Set-Cookie: PHPSESSID=76ed6786a72b819562c829a5200cc0b4; path=/^M
Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT^M
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, 
pre-check=0^M
Pragma: no-cache^M
Connection: close^M
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8^M

(something odd about that 1981).

> the fact that the link you just requested, doesn't exist.
>
> The weird thing is:
> - the link does exist, and all other browsers I tried, do know how to
> "find" it (firefox, seamonkey, konqueror, elinks, links).

w3m also (which counts more than any of the (e)links(2) variants).

> - lynx is looking for the file in completely the wrong place, namely
> in the root of Apache, not in the root of the domain.
> - It seems that lynx by itself adds a "/" to the name of the file
> - this only seems to happen with links that are <name>.php files and
> not with <name>.html files, as those links work fine

Actually the "GET" in each case puts a "/" in front, whether it's a php
file or a html file.  You can see that in the trace file using

        lynx -trace http://linux-wless.passys.nl

(Whether that's correct or a misfeature/misconfiguration of Apache, I'm 
not sure at the moment).

> I've tried this with several versions, among which:
>
> Lynx Version 2.8.6rel.4
> Lynx Version 2.8.5rel.1
>
>
> Could you please shed some light on this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Hendrik-Jan
>
>
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