On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 09:05:18PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am running lynx on NetBSD-1.5 and am seeing the following error: > > > http://www.waiter.com/cgi-bin/SCMMOS/GetRestaurant.cgi?AMICISD4 > > The above URL works correctly in lynx with both > 2.8.3 and 2.8.4 -- if you do it directly from the > command line. However, if you start from > http://www.waiter.com/amicis/amicis4.location.html > and select "Delivery Menu", you get a blank page with 2.8.4, but it > works correctly with 2.8.3 > -- Felicia
The page contains a url with an embedded newline, which is a bug fixed in 2.8.5dev.4 (and should have been in the bugfixes under the 2.8.4 release page - I've a few of those to put together for a third bugfix patch): Menu</FONT></B></A> (20 minutes) <P></P><A HREF="/cgi-bin/SCMMOS/GetRestaurant.cgi?AMICISD 4"><B><FONT SIZE="+1" COLOR="#FF0000">Delivery Menu</FONT></B></A> The changelog entry for the fix: * modify LYLegitimizeHREF() change from 2.8.4dev.21 to eliminate newlines from the HREF rather than converting them to spaces. This fixes a problem with www.ebay.com which splits up HREFs with newlines. Changing the newlines to spaces made the HREF no longer match, e.g., when it was built up from a CGI script (report by Morten Bo Johansen) -TD -- Thomas E. Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net ; To UNSUBSCRIBE: Send "unsubscribe lynx-dev" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
