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> >>>Hi,
> >>>
> >>> When I go to a particular site, normally it works very well.
> >>>However, once in a while, when I go to the same address, I get the
> >>>following prompt instead of my usual rendered html page:
> >>>
> >>>Read 1023 bytes of data.
> >>>HTTP/1.1 200 Document follows
> >>>text/html;charset=iso_8859-1
> > ^^^^^
> >seems lynx doesn't recognize iso_8859* codepages (only iso-8859*)
> >Though assume_unrec_charset should be used...
> >perhaps he use antique lynx 2.7 or so.
> >
> >>>D)ownload, or C)ancel
> >>>
> >>> From reading the Users Guide, it seems that lynx thinks that it
> >has
> >>>encountered a binary file. I'm wondering whether somebody could
> >tell
> >>>me why this is happening. Is it a problem with the server, or with
> >>>lynx? Can I fix it somehow? By the way, during the same time when
> >>>lynx has this problem, I can still use Netscape to access that site.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks much for any help in advance.
> >>>
> >>>John Huang
> >>>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
>
>I apologize for not providing more details in my original posting.
>The site I sometimes have trouble with is
>https://www.edreyfus.com/cgi-bin/login. However, the problem is only
>occasional. As it occurs randomly, I can't reproduce the problem
>reliably.
>
>I'm using Lynx Version 2.8rel.2 on Redhat Linux 6.0. Now I'm pretty
>sure that, as Leonid Pauzner points out, the problem lies in that this
>version of lynx doesn't recognize iso_8859-1 (with the underscore
>instead of the dash), which is sometimes specified by the server, it
>seems.
>
>I would have upgraded to a newer version of lynx, except that the last
>time I tried, I couldn't get 2.8.3rel.1 lynx to work with
>https://www.edreyfus.com/cgi-bin/login. So I decided to stay with
>2.8rel.2. If somebody has succeeded in accessing this site using the
>latest lynx, do please let me know, and I'll attempt my upgrade again.
>
>In the meantime, if somebody could kindly point out how I could force
>2.8rel.2 to recognize and render "iso_8859-1", I'd appreciate that
>very much.
>
>Thanks much.
>
>John Huang
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