On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 11:13:40PM -0500, Karen Lewellen wrote: > Hi, > new question about this? > Shellworld took a short and unexpected nap this evening. > So I tried logging into paypal from the ssh telnet shell for the > company that hosts our nonprofit organization's domain. dreamhost > has lynx too. > Without my changing anything,i was able to log in. I had never done > it, so all the cookies we renew. > I came back into shellworld once awake, tried it again, and could > not in. > so I checked the preferred encoding, and it was set to all. > So I changed it to compressed, and was able to get in here as well. > My question is what that setting should be for most flexibility? > I can get into paypal now yes, but am wondering what might be an > issue. Unless our having it set for all actually was more > restrictive?
"all" is technically least-restrictive, since it says Lynx will accept all of those compression types. It's possible that the server is sending something with "deflate" compression (there's no standard external program for that, though I might bundle one with Lynx...). > Thanks, > Karen > > On Fri, 22 Nov 2013, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > >On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 10:29:08PM -0500, Karen Lewellen wrote: > >>Hi Folks, > >>Can someone share what normally causes this issue? > >>eBay used to have this then it was removed. now paypal which worked > >>with lynx well until about a week ago has this problem. > >>I am speaking with someone in their executive office tomorrow so > >>want to explain with more than just my experience if I can. > > > >If the problem is temporary (eBay) using the same client, > >then that sounds like the server. It's possible that an > >upgrade changed the real compression to/from deflate, which > >you may/may not have (there was some instance of that a few > >years ago). You can configure lynx to say it won't accept > >compressed pages to help narrow it down (the "Preferred Encoding" > >selection in the options menu). > > > >-- > >Thomas E. Dickey <[email protected]> > >http://invisible-island.net > >ftp://invisible-island.net > > -- Thomas E. Dickey <[email protected]> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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