On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, Fr�d�ric L. W. Meunier wrote: > On Sun, 1 Feb 2004, Doug Kaufman wrote: > > > The main problem with the binary is the inability to break > > out of a hung connection without closing the browser. I see > > the same thing with the Cygwin port. (I am talking about when > > the status line says something like "Making http connection > > to ... Waiting for reply", but the reply never comes.) It is > > hard to compare until it can compile and different people can > > try it out. > > I thought it'd work with --enable-nsl-fork (from INSTALLATION: > "Disabled by default, this allows interruption of NSL requests, > so that `z' will stop the `look-up' phase of a connection.") > but I also noticed it never did for me on Windows. Or is the > option just for "Looking up..." ?
I haven't tested extensively, but I think that this just works during nameserver lookup. The windows ports (including mingw) use _WINDOWS_NSL instead of the NSL_FORK code. For an example of a connection that always hangs try: "gopher://rs.internic.net/1";. I can cancel the attempt in the DJGPP port, but not in Cygwin or MingW. I can also cancel using an old Linux version of lynx (haven't tried a current version). > But you wrote "the reply never comes". Isn't there a timeout ? Not for as long as I was willing to wait. Doug -- Doug Kaufman Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; To UNSUBSCRIBE: Send "unsubscribe lynx-dev" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
