On Sat, May 20, 2017 at 03:20:21AM +0100, Zefram wrote: > Package: lynx-cur > Version: 2.8.9dev1-2+deb8u1 > Severity: important > > Lynx has developed a habit of finding it difficult to load the same web > page twice in one session, for pages in some websites but not others.
This report doesn't indicate a version where Lynx behaves as you expect. > Where the bug is in effect, the first loading of any page from an affected > website works normally, but then any second or subsequent attempt to > load the same page shortly thereafter fails. This happens for almost > any means of invoking a page load: following a link from another page, > typing in the URL manually, or following a link from the browser's > "visited links" page. But page loading succeeds if invoked by following > a link from the browser's "history" page, by using the "u" command to pop > the history stack, or by using the ^R command to reload the current page. > Where page loading fails due to this bug, there is activity in the status > line that seems to reflect a network request, but then the activity ends > and the status line returns to normal without changing page, as if the > request to load the affected page had never been made. This sounds like the longstanding Lynx behavior: it doesn't automatically reload a page which has been read and is cached locally. -- Thomas E. Dickey <dic...@invisible-island.net> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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