On 7/15/07, Hendrik-Jan Heins <address@hidden > wrote:
> 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
> 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).
> - 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
>
> 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?
The target="_parent" tag seems to be relevant; it wants to open a page
inside a frameset, which isn't possible since lynx doesn't know about it.
Look at the output of lynx -trace, the request seems to get sent as:
Composing Authorization for
linux-wless.passys.nl:80/query_part.php?brandname=
2Wire
HTAASetup_lookup: No template matched `query_part.php?brandname=
2Wire
' (so probably not protected)
HTTP: Not sending authorization (yet).
Writing:
GET /query_part.php?brandname=
2Wire
HTTP/1.0\r
Host: linux-wless.passys.nl\r
I didn't add in the line wrap where brandname=2Wire is split (not sure why
that is there - I'm using putty). I thought it might have been some js in
there, but it's just that _parent tag and it really seems like the server is
responding correctly.
Stefan Caunter
http://caunter.ca/contact.html