I get the same feeling when linkedin asks me if I want to connect to someone whom I know has died some years back.
This happens more frequently as I get older. Tracy Johnson +00 1 757 766-4318 tel +00 1 757 755-6470 mobile Hampton, Virginia, U.S. [email protected] > -----Original Message----- > From: Lynx-dev [mailto:lynx-dev-bounces+tracy.johnson=meas- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Axel Beckert > Sent: Monday, October 30, 2017 10:31 AM > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Lynx-dev] Missing link on lynx.invisible-island.net > > The following message was sent from an external e-mail address. Be cautious > when clicking on links, opening attachments or providing sensitive > information. > > ________________________________ > > Hi, > > On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 11:41:01AM +0000, Ian Collier wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 28, 2017 at 07:47:16AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > > On Sat, Oct 28, 2017 at 09:21:26AM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > > > according to > > > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=879991 > > > > there points a link in documentation to nowhere. > > > > > I pointed out that it's a problem with the package, not the upstream > source. > > > > The Lynx source does not build cattoc.html unless configure was run > > with --enable-htmlized-cfg - but by default that setting is disabled, > > in which case the Lynx_users_guide.html that it produces contains a > > broken link. I'd say that is an issue with the upstream source. > > Thanks for that hint. > > For privacy reasons many binary distributions don't like remote startup > pages, etc. and change them to local links. So do we by patching lynx.cfg. > > But if cattoc.html (and maybe other files) is just built with that configure > option (which we currently don't use), it's understandable if instead a link > to the upstream website is used. > > So I checked where this link comes from in the (unpatched and unbuilt) > 2.8.9dev16 sources: > > $ git grep breakout > lynx.cfg:# is available at http://lynx.invisible- > island.net/release/breakout/lynx_help/cattoc.html > lynx_help/Lynx_users_guide.html: "http://lynx.invisible- > island.net/release/breakout/lynx_help/cattoc.html"> > lynx_help/Lynx_users_guide.html: "http://lynx.invisible- > island.net/release/breakout/lynx_help/alphatoc.html"> > lynx_help/lynx_help_main.html: "http://lynx.invisible- > island.net/release/breakout/lynx_help/cattoc.html"> > lynx_help/lynx_help_main.html: "http://lynx.invisible- > island.net/release/breakout/docs/">lynx > makefile.in:LYNX_URL='@HOMEPAGE_URL@release/breakout' > > The URL argued about in the bug report is http://lynx.invisible- > island.net/release/breakout/lynx_help/cattoc.html > > So this URL indeed is part of the unmodified upstream sources. > > http://lynx.invisible-island.net/release/breakout/lynx_help/ shows quite > some files, but not cattoc.html. But it lists http://lynx.invisible- > island.net/release/breakout/lynx_help/Lynx_users_guide.html > and that also contains those links "by category" and "by alphabet". > But it's even worse there: They point to those two URLs where the hostname > no more exists: > > http://lynx.isc.org/release/breakout/lynx_help/cattoc.html > http://lynx.isc.org/release/breakout/lynx_help/alphatoc.html > > This probably comes from the fact that this is not from a development > release but an rather old stable release. But http://lynx.invisible- > island.net/current/breakout/ doesn't exist. So I went to > http://lynx.invisible-island.net/lynx_help/ and clicked on "Online > Documentation" in the left menu (http://lynx.invisible- > island.net/lynx_help/). But I just got "Forbidden — You don't have > permission to access /lynx_help/ on this server." > > Thomas: So for me it looks as if Elimar and Ian are right: This looks like > broken literal links in the upstream code and the included prebuilt > documentation as well as in the online documentation. It would be nice if > you could have a closer look at these issues. Thanks in advance! > > Kind regards, Axel > -- > /~\ Plain Text Ribbon Campaign | Axel Beckert > \ / Say No to HTML in E-Mail and News | [email protected] > (Mail) > X See http://www.nonhtmlmail.org/campaign.html | [email protected] > (Mail+Jabber) > / \ I love long mails: http://email.is-not-s.ms/ | http://abe.noone.org/ > (Web) > _______________________________________________ Lynx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lynx-dev
