Bug#404957: lynx: google reports malformed browser request

2006-12-29 Thread Mark Whitis
Package: lynx
Version: 2.8.5-2sarge2.2
Severity: important

lynx http://www.google.com/
google reports browser issued malformed request and does not show the
search page.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages lynx depends on:
ii  libbz2-1.0   1.0.3-6 high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  libc62.3.6.ds1-9 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgnutls13  1.4.4-3 the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libncursesw5 5.5-5   Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  zlib1g   1:1.2.3-13  compression library - runtime

Versions of packages lynx recommends:
ii  mime-support  3.39-1 MIME files 'mime.types'  'mailcap

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Bug#404957: lynx: google reports malformed browser request

2006-12-29 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 05:20:06PM +0100, Mark Whitis wrote:
 Package: lynx
 Version: 2.8.5-2sarge2.2
 Severity: important

It helps to read the bug reports...

For instance

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=248092
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=268264

It was fixed in lynx-cur more than two years ago.

http://lynx.isc.org/lynx2.8.6/lynx2-8-6/CHANGES
See notes for 2004-05-23 (2.8.6dev.4).

The current version of lynx is 2.8.6

It's available at
http://lynx.isc.org/lynx2.8.6/
2.8.7 Development  patches:
http://lynx.isc.org/current/index.html

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Thomas E. Dickey
http://invisible-island.net
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