Re: [Lynx-dev] a solution for this problem?

[Jude DaShiell]

There's the = sign command in lynx that shows information about a page and
the URL closest to the bottom of that output may be the needed link.



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On Sat, 14 Jan 2023, Bela Lubkin wrote:

> Karen Lewellen wrote:
>
> > However, when I hit enter on this link, I get a badly formed address
> > error...which I admit is new.
>
> Can you find out what that badly formed address link is?  I'm not sure
> which of these might work:
>
> - `lynx -source the_problem_page > problem-page.html`, then examine that
> - use backslash 'view source' while in Lynx on the problem page
> - '=' command inside Lynx, on the problem page, while on the problem link
> - running the whole thing under `lynx -trace` and digging it out of the
>   wreckage
>
> It could be as simple as them using some sort of wrong HTML or URL
> encoding which other browsers 'know' and silently fix -- or as
> unreachable as the URL has to be decoded from some sort of crypto by
> a JavaScript routine...
>
> >Bela<
>
>