Re: lynx-dev Lynx-2.8.5-dev.16 anomaly

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 06:11:35PM +0000, Patrick Ash wrote:
> This has always worked for me with Lynx in the past. I seem to
> remember that on the few occasions that I use IE, it also works
> there. I agree that pricewatch might be partially to blame, but Lynx
> worked for me up to dev.15. I have dev.14, dev.15, and dev.16 all
> running here, and only dev.14 can get the proper search back with
> multiple words. 
> 
> Since it only happens with the one site (that I have found so far),
> it is just a nuisance. If fixing the problem for this instance breaks
> something else, I can live with the current limitation. 

Looking at the trace, I can see a difference shortly before the failure
(though some analysis is needed to see how it got that way).  My first
guess was that it was a difference in the form-submitting function, but
that part of the trace is the same.  So I'm guessing that it's a change
in the parsing code.
 
> Pat
> 
> 
> On Mon, 02 Jun 2003 13:34:32 -0700, Bela Lubkin wrote:
> 
> 
> >This happens for me with ancient Lynx (ummm, looks like it's
> >2.8.4dev.20); and with old Netscape (4.7.x) and (if I remember right
> >from browsing at home) Opera 7.10 for Windows.  If you use commas
> >instead of spaces ("cpu,2.8ghz" rather than "cpu 2.8ghz"), it searches
> >successfully.
> >
> >I'm pretty sure the fault is mostly in pricewatch's search engine.  Its
> >parsing of the form submission results is weak.
> >
> 
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