Re: [Lynx-dev] lynx word bleeding?

[Ian Collier]

Chime Hart writes:
> Hi All: I still use Shellworld, as well as my own Debian setup.  Funny
> thing is I visit
> www.radiotapes.com
> On my machine I only see raw html.

As Mouse says, this site isn't sending a Content-Type header.  Lynx
actually has an option for this, and so if Lynxes are treating
it differently it probably means the option differs between
environments.

Extract from lynx.cfg:

.h2 PREFERRED_CONTENT_TYPE
# When doing a GET, lynx expects the server to provide a Content-Type, i.e.,
# the MIME name which tells it how to present data.  When that is missing
# lynx uses this value.
#PREFERRED_CONTENT_TYPE: text/plain

You can set this within Lynx on the (o)ptions screen, though by default
it's not saved to disk.  You want to set it to text/html in order to
properly view the above page.

Note: I believe there shouldn't be a space between the colon and 'text'
in the lynx.cfg setting - at least it didn't work for me with a space
but did work without.  This means there is a bug either in the parser
or in the sample lynx.cfg which comes with Lynx.

imc