Re: [Lynx-dev] ..on SOCKS5 support

2019-09-07 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Steffen Nurpmeso dixit: >library. That increased the surprise, because all one needs for >SOCKS5 support, even including the DNS lookup, is to hook >connect(2) -- that is how i did it, as easy as [1]. And in fact Really? (About DNS. I disbelieve that, especially as the DNS server is on the LAN

Re: [Lynx-dev] lynx and amazon?

2019-09-02 Thread Thorsten Glaser
> presenting the www.amazon.com/access page for those wanting a simplified I don’t get a captcha there, only the cookie warning. But my past experience with audio captchas was: incomprehensible. (Not that the graphical ones are much better, though…) bye, //mirabilos -- 22:59⎜ glaub ich termk

Re: [Lynx-dev] ... Accessible Search Engines ... the nasty mouse.

2019-09-01 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Halaasz Saandor via Lynx-dev dixit: > O, I love that. I wish I could forgo the mouse for everything but > drawing. My showlder always grows sore. I switched to a Lenovo Thinkpad USB keyboard with nipple and no touchpad in it (the SK-8855 model, neither the older SK-8845, which has touchpad, nor

Re: [Lynx-dev] AO3

2019-08-30 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Karen Lewellen dixit: > Your story edit example does not provide the entire work, only the > last chapter. Is there a hand edit method that gives one the entire > work at once? I don't think so, I just read them chapter by chapter. > My goal at ffn is less about reading than actually interacti

Re: [Lynx-dev] AO3

2019-08-30 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Karen Lewellen dixit: > Still, I take ao3 over fanfiction.net any day of the week. Cannot even reach > a > human there let alone do much via lynx. Yeah. Reading is possible by hand-editing the URLs: ffn/s// e.g. https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8864982/26 (the / at the end is not needed) Commu

Re: [Lynx-dev] AO3

2019-08-29 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Karen Lewellen dixit: > That is funny, I log in using lynx several times a day, with my cookie saved > without javascript. Hm. Are you outside of the EU, by chance? Perhaps they’re doing geographical detection via IP address, and insisting on the JS cookie only for Europeans? > In fact the site

[Lynx-dev] AO3 (was Re: lynx and amazon?)

2019-08-29 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Karen Lewellen dixit: > www.archiveofourown.org > is a fantastic site for hp fan fiction, for fanworks in general. They are > committed to inclusion and rock in lynx. Only as far as they can do it without extra effort, I’m sorry to relay from the AO3 support. Since a while, logging in does not

Re: [Lynx-dev] lynx and amazon?

2019-08-27 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Ian Collier dixit: >and moreover, the later 2039 ones caused the earlier 2036 ones to be deleted. Oh, do you have a system with 32-bit time_t? @TD: perhaps lynx could, if sizeof(time_t) <= 4, map cookies past 2036 to INT_MAX so they will work… for a while longer. MirBSD/i386, with its 64-bi

Re: [Lynx-dev] playing aac or m4a files

2019-08-26 Thread Thorsten Glaser
russellb...@gmail.com dixit: >Yorker' that I download are AAC. lynx won't play them for me lynx is a browser, not a media player, it’s idiotic to think it would play multimedia. run it through mplayer on the command line, or vlc if you like to use that. //mirabilos -- 15:39⎜«mika:#grml» mira|

Re: [Lynx-dev] making lynx render œ as oe

2019-07-23 Thread Thorsten Glaser
russellb...@gmail.com dixit: > I've made dozens of changes over the years. I had hoped that Just get a UTF-8 terminal like uxterm. bye, //mirabilos -- If Harry Potter gets a splitting headache in his scar when he’s near Tom Riddle (aka Voldemort), does Tom get pain in the arse when Harry

Re: [Lynx-dev] Using Lynx on 32-bit Windows XP

2019-06-18 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Thomas Dickey dixit: >you might find some minor issue (GV's reported some occasionally, >where a non-default #define / #ifdef has to be repaired). But >setting up a build-environment, etc., is most of the required effort. Yeah… I don’t use Windows® any more really, I have an old win2k instance o

Re: [Lynx-dev] Using Lynx on 32-bit Windows XP

2019-06-17 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Anton Shepelev dixit: >Is there a way to install and run Lynx on Windows XP http://www.mirbsd.org/~tg/pub/lynx-windows.lzh is an older build of mine (2001) for Windows 2000. You can extract that with LHarc, if you have it, or from: http://www.mirbsd.org/~tg/pub/lha.exe No guarantees, of course,

Re: [Lynx-dev] character 716 x2cc 'Modifier Low Vertical Line'

2019-06-12 Thread Thorsten Glaser
russellb...@gmail.com dixit: > lynx unrenders. I made lynx emit an underscore. Firefox How about you just run lynx in an uxterm with a sensible UTF-8 font with many codepoints, like: http://www.mirbsd.org/MirOS/dist/mir/Foundry/FixedMisc-20190604.tgz bye, //mirabilos -- 15:39⎜«mika:#gr

Re: [Lynx-dev] Displaying a pdf live on the Fly?

2019-06-04 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Tim Chase dixit: >If you have the "pdftotext" utility (part of my "poppler-utils" pdftotext isn’t bad, but I almost always have X11+uxterm around lynx anyway (for proper Unicode support), so I get along well with: $ fgrep mupdf /etc/lynx.cfg DOWNLOADER:View in mupdf:mupdf '%s':FALSE:XWINDOWS by

Re: [Lynx-dev] [SOLVED] characters on the g line don’t match what I am typing

2019-05-06 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Thomas Dickey dixit: >> I guess I'll have to dig through the source then. But the >> question comes to mind what the "Keyboard layout" option >> is supposed to do if the selection does not become active... > >I took a quick look, but didn't see the answer. >Knowing how it was triggered would give

Re: [Lynx-dev] characters on the g line don’t match what I am typing

2019-05-06 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Thomas Dickey dixit: >> It's not, I have them active during a running session, >> and that's it. > >control/T toggles the trace-feature :-) Yes, but the trace does not show how it was activated in the past. bye, //m ___ Lynx-dev mailing list Lynx-dev@

Re: [Lynx-dev] characters on the g line don’t match what I am typing

2019-05-06 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Thomas Dickey dixit: >> But how did I apparently accidentally enable it in the >> running session? > >I'm not sure - one of the 8-bit keys, I suppose. Hmm, weird. >A Lynx.trace would show the details, if it's easy to reproduce. It's not, I have them active during a running session, and that's i

Re: [Lynx-dev] characters on the g line don’t match what I am typing

2019-05-05 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Thomas Dickey dixit: >.h2 KEYBOARD_LAYOUT Hm, that’s in lynx.cfg but not in the manpage (I searched for “rot” there). But how did I apparently accidentally enable it in the running session? But, yes, that’s apparently also in (O)ptions… Keyboard layout : [15][(1)__ROT13'd k

[Lynx-dev] characters on the g line don’t match what I am typing

2019-05-04 Thread Thorsten Glaser
In the midst of a lynx session, I type 'g' and then 1234567890-=qwertyuiop[]asdfghjkl;'\zxcvbnm,./ but the ‘g’ line shows this instead: 1234567890-=djreglhvbc[]nfqstuwxy;'\mkpioaz,./ This also applies to copy/paste. What gives? Lynx 2.8.8dev.16 in GNU screen 4.0.3 in uxterm 200 in XFree86 4.5.

Re: [Lynx-dev] Better replacements for bullet character x2022

2019-02-18 Thread Thorsten Glaser
russellb...@gmail.com dixit: > I disagree with many of the character-renderings in lynx. I Eh, just use UTF-8. bye, //mirabilos -- Beware of ritual lest you forget the meaning behind it. yeah but it means if you really care about something, don't ritualise it, or you will lose it.

Re: [Lynx-dev] Strange behavior

2019-02-15 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Mouse dixit: >switching; I don't know Ubuntu (or for that matter any Linux) well I'm somewhat familiar enough with Linux by now, but the addition of brltty may throw off that knowledge, since it adds another layer few people are familiar with. bye, //mirabilos -- cool ein Ada Lovelace Google-D

Re: [Lynx-dev] Strange behavior

2019-02-14 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Hi Tom, > trace file shows a GETCH0 got 0x hmm, 0x means -1 means EOF, end of file, so perhaps lynx thinks something closed the terminal. Somewhat cynically I suspect systemd might be behind something like that, but don't have an idea myself. Does this also happen with other prog

Re: [Lynx-dev] Refreshing lynx

2019-02-13 Thread Thorsten Glaser
russellb...@gmail.com dixit: > I sometimes change lynx.cfg, .lynxrc, .lynx_cookies (etc.). >To get lynx to read them I have to quit then start again. I'd use a >keystroke that made lynx re-load configuration files. I think that is not a bad idea WHEN combined with a command that stores the

Re: [Lynx-dev] [PATCH v1] fix GNUTLS recv handling

2019-02-12 Thread Thorsten Glaser
sylvain.bertr...@gmail.com dixit: >This is a "I don't know if it's a correct patch". - } +if (rc < 0 && gnutls_error_is_fatal(rc) == 0) { It completely breaks the existing indentation style, at the very least. (This also applies to v2.) bye, //mirabilos -- [00:02] gecko: benutzt

Re: [Lynx-dev] chipmusic.org unexpected network error

2019-02-11 Thread Thorsten Glaser
sylvain.bertr...@gmail.com dixit: >I get an unexpected network error while attempting to browse: >http://chipmusic.org/ It redirects to HTTPS then requires TLS > 1.0 ☹ ___ Lynx-dev mailing list Lynx-dev@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listi

Re: [Lynx-dev] The HTML hidden attribute

2019-01-29 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Ian Collier dixit: >The menu options are made visible by CSS when a checkbox is checked, These things are also often used to be made visible later with CSS and/or JS, so lynx showing everything actually helps users because otherwise, some page elements would be inaccessible. (For example, hidden

Re: [Lynx-dev] wynn

2019-01-04 Thread Thorsten Glaser
russellb...@gmail.com dixit: > lynx mis-renders this old English letter. It's 447 (1bf hex). With UTF-8 as display encoding, it renders just fine. bye, //mirabilos -- >> Why don't you use JavaScript? I also don't like enabling JavaScript in > Because I use lynx as browser. +1 --

Re: [Lynx-dev] relative HREF in BASE tag

2018-11-25 Thread Thorsten Glaser
David Woolley dixit: > On 25/11/2018 11:09, David Woolley wrote: >> (As I understand the history, W3C didn't have much to do with HTML 5, even >> though it looks as though they have now adopted it into their standards.) > > In particular, HTML5 was developed by WHATWG (Web Hypertext Application A

Re: [Lynx-dev] Year 2038 problem in handling cookie date

2018-11-06 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Dixi quod… >There are more bugs, for example: > > 996 if ((long) Start < 0) Now I see it was even wrong on platforms with a (long-sized) unsigned time_t… Ideally, you should not cast here at all, and wrap the entire check into an #if(def) that is false if time_t is unsigned (configure-t

Re: [Lynx-dev] Year 2038 problem in handling cookie date

2018-10-31 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Bela Lubkin dixit: >> 996 if ((long) Start < 0) >> >> This will cause truncation, already on MirBSD/i386 and >> Linux/x32, which are ILP32 and use 64-bit time_t. > >`Start' is a time_t, so on systems where time_t is already a 32-bit int >(i.e. `long'), that cast should have no effect. W

Re: [Lynx-dev] Year 2038 problem in handling cookie date

2018-10-31 Thread Thorsten Glaser
patak...@users.sourceforge.jp dixit: >Lynx crashes when accessing the site with 32-bit system. >I wrote an ad-hoc patch to prevent the crash. There are more bugs, for example: 996 if ((long) Start < 0) This will cause truncation, already on MirBSD/i386 and Linux/x32, which are ILP32 a

Re: [Lynx-dev] display bugs in Linux kernel 4.19 that show up in lynx

2018-10-23 Thread Thorsten Glaser
russellb...@gmail.com dixit: > tset -r also returns 'linux' > > It's non-X, framebuffer, mode 773, 170x48 characters. There's I’ve had a similar experience with Linux framebuffer console during boot: https://mercurius.teckids.org/http-upload-get/4e87114b556dd8a28652e95cead02eb93a41a

[Lynx-dev] invalid Google cookies (was Re: redirection loop)

2018-10-21 Thread Thorsten Glaser
sylvain.bertr...@gmail.com dixit: >cookies (but, as another issue, google.com is sending invalid cookies to lynx, >which is complaining). I have this… COOKIE_REJECT_DOMAINS:google.com … in my /etc/lynx.cfg (to avoid storing their tracking cookies) and this… force_cookie_prompt=yes … in my lyn

Re: [Lynx-dev] wcwidth not honoured

2018-10-06 Thread Thorsten Glaser
KIHARA Hideto dixit: >> (patches welcome) > >My patch is attached. Oh, interesting! >Known issue: >* Highlight is incorrect on selecting wrapped long wide-char link text. >* Whereis highlight position is incorrect after wide-char text. Hm, that’s bad, but that’s also the case for the current co

[Lynx-dev] wcwidth not honoured

2018-10-05 Thread Thorsten Glaser
With the attached file, running 'lynx x.htm' in an 80x24 uxterm on MirBSD, or in a GNU screen with ^A:height -w 24 80 on Debian sid, results in the following screenshots: -cutting here may damage your screen surface- Shadowz101 | Fan

Re: [Lynx-dev] TLS-"transport layer security" & LYNX

2018-07-29 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Mouse dixit: >Because there is no technical difference between that and a cert for >*.com or *.qc.ca: there is no way to tell, when presented with the >cert, whether everything covered by it is under common administration. Except the asterisk does not match a dot. So *.com would be valid for exa

Re: [Lynx-dev] TLS-"transport layer security" & LYNX

2018-07-28 Thread Thorsten Glaser
David Woolley dixit: > Because the request URI hasn't been sent at the time that the > appropriate certificate for the host needs to be selected. It is only > sent after encryption is established, based on that host name. Yes, but I showed no less than three ways to deal with that problem in a

Re: [Lynx-dev] recognition in the 'New York Times'

2018-07-28 Thread Thorsten Glaser
russellb...@gmail.com dixit: > tech...@nytimes.com It's your tip. They use Googlemail, I cannot reliably communicate with them because Google ignores basic Internet standards and best practices and thinks they can get away with it (“too big to fail”). Please do forward this discussion the

Re: [Lynx-dev] TLS-"transport layer security" & LYNX

2018-07-28 Thread Thorsten Glaser
David Niklas dixit: >All that being said, I'd be interested in knowing what Thorsten Glaser >was talking about with respect to TLS 1.3. I though, perhaps somewhat >naively, that all headers, cookies, and the resource(s) you are That used to be true. Then, people who wanted to

Re: [Lynx-dev] recognition in the 'New York Times'

2018-07-28 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Gisle Vanem dixit: > Testing with my Opera Mini browser on my Nokia phone, the front-page size > was 236 kByte (89% reduction) thanks to "Opera Mini Mark-up Language". Yes, sure, but in this scenario you have Opera servers as a proxy (who can read all your data) instead of just your own ones. Not

Re: [Lynx-dev] recognition in the 'New York Times'

2018-07-27 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Karen Lewellen dixit: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/26/technology/personaltech/browsers-minimize-data.html > Thomas this is a press moment that should not be missed. if the reporter is > contacted and given an education on how much Lynx can do, imagine the > possibilities? There

Re: [Lynx-dev] TLS-"transport layer security" & LYNX

2018-07-23 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Mouse dixit: >> go to for my work and it gets worse daily. > >Me too, but it's not lynx's fault in my case. If it’s “getting worse daily” I suspect it’s the fault of all those sites and CDNs now requiring TLSv1.1 or TLSv1.2 or an ECC ciphersuite. I am hit hard by those as well. There’s likely no

Re: [Lynx-dev] LYMain.c fails to compile if USE_PERSISTENT_COOKIES is undefined.

2018-07-14 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Juan Manuel Guerrero dixit: > the macro USE_PERSISTENT_COOKIES is undefined. In that case it would be > clearner to > enclose the complete if-block with a #idef USE_PERSISTENT_COOKIES / #endif > pair True… ___ Lynx-dev mailing list Lynx-dev@nongnu.or

Re: [Lynx-dev] LYMain.c fails to compile if USE_PERSISTENT_COOKIES is undefined.

2018-07-11 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Juan Manuel Guerrero dixit: > +#ifdef USE_PERSISTENT_COOKIES > if (LYCookieFile != 0 && LYCookieSaveFile != 0) { > +#else > +{ Shouldn’t that be an “if (0) {” instead? > +#endif > /* set few safe flags: */ > #ifdef USE_PERSISTENT_COOKIES > BOOLEAN persistent_cookies_flag = pe

Re: [Lynx-dev] Characters used to mark items in a list used without spaces

2018-07-11 Thread Thorsten Glaser
russellb...@gmail.com dixit: > Not nytimes.com, not washingtonpost.com, not abqjournal.com. OK, I don’t read those ☺ > 'Can you add an optional space to them (one that gets rendered >only if there would be no space after the character otherwise)?' > This is unnecessary: lynx re

Re: [Lynx-dev] Characters used to mark items in a list used without spaces

2018-07-11 Thread Thorsten Glaser
russellb...@gmail.com dixit: >and many more. I think I see the logic, but most authors leave no >space between the item-marker and the text that follows. This looks I've seen most authors do. Can you add an optional space to them (one that gets rendered only if there would be no space after th

Re: [Lynx-dev] lynx un-renders 

2018-06-04 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Halaasz Saandor dixit: > If "latin1 is exactly the first 256 codepoints of Unicode" then cp1252 > is not a superset of Latin1: instead, instead of C1 characters cp1252 I’ve never said otherwise. However, I decided to voluntarily ignore that because ① C1 control characters have no business *at

Re: [Lynx-dev] lynx un-renders 

2018-05-28 Thread Thorsten Glaser
russellb...@gmail.com dixit: > It shows up rarely. I can't make sense why. There are I can: it’s often produced by Microsoft users who save in a legacy codepage encoding, then convert from latin1 to Unicode. Now the codepage 1252 is a superset of latin1. latin1 leaves 0x80‥0x9F for C1 co

Re: [Lynx-dev] lynx un-renders 

2018-05-27 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Hi russellbell, can you please use hexadecimal numbers in threads like this one, so it is easier for others to find the mentioned character in the Unicode database? Thanks in advance! >I think it appears by accident every time I see it. I’ve only ever seen those used by windows codepage 1252 use

Re: [Lynx-dev] remove link references from -dump output?

2018-05-14 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Thomas Seeling dixit: >off display of referenced URLs? Is there an option for this? Yup, -nolist (RTFM ☻) Gruß //mirabilos -- „Cool, /usr/share/doc/mksh/examples/uhr.gz ist ja ein Grund, mksh auf jedem System zu installieren.“ -- XTaran auf der OpenRheinRuhr, ganz begeistert (EN: “[…]uh

Re: [Lynx-dev] ANN: lynx2.8.9dev.18

2018-05-06 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Thomas Dickey dixit: >* ignore content-encoding in HTContentToCompressType() if the content-type is > known, to improve the suggested filename (report by Russell Bell) -TD Thanks! >* modify HTDoConnect(), adding a check for keyboard interrupt with 'z' in the > select-loop -TD Thanks! >* modi

[Lynx-dev] Official reference for the Wikimedia sites problem (was Re: Iohann Fust's Wikipedia reload problem)

2018-04-24 Thread Thorsten Glaser
russellb...@gmail.com dixit: > Could this be related to the problem I reported that lynx No. The Wikimedia sites problem has been discusses to death several times over the past… wow, more than half a year by now. It was fixed in 2.8.9dev.15 on 2017-07-04 by: * correct logic in HTCopy() whe

[Lynx-dev] old machines (was Re: lynx startup message)

2018-04-15 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Tim Chase dixit: >As you mention it's a 1994-vintage machine (and here I thought *I* I believe that to be a mistake, as Athlon weren’t around back then. On the other hand, I do run lynx on a Mitac 4023 machine, 80486DLC-33 with 10 MiB RAM, occasionally. (My main server is a Pentium 233 MMX thoug

Re: [Lynx-dev] lynx startup message

2018-04-15 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Paul Gilmartin dixit: >Is it possible the message is coming from a system() call within lynx? No, it comes from the shell trying to run the lynx ELF/amd64 binary as a shell script after the execve(2) syscall returned ENOEXEC because her host system is ARM (IIRC). bye, //mirabilos -- FWIW, I'm q

Re: [Lynx-dev] lynx startup message

2018-04-15 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Jude DaShiell dixit: > /usr/bin/lynx: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), ^^ > I do not know. The hardware is an amd K8 Athelon built back I think in 1994. I think perhaps you have an i386 system and are trying to run an amd64 binary. Use lynx for the pr

Re: [Lynx-dev] Cancel a goto request

2018-04-12 Thread Thorsten Glaser
dan d. dixit: >I know control g will cancel many goto and/or link requests. But when >I get a "waiting for response" it does nothing and that can remain for >a very long time. You can hit “z” there, unless it’s in that weird state where only http://www.mirbsd.org/htman/i386/man8/tcpdrop.htm on t

Re: [Lynx-dev] Website shows blank page in Lynx browser

2018-04-12 Thread Thorsten Glaser
David Woolley dixit: > Also note that HTML5 is the product of a coup, by an industry > consortium and is not controlled by W3C. W3C wanted a semantically > strong language, document mark-up language. WHATWG wanted a language > for running graphical applications on browsers, that was defined in > s

[Lynx-dev] On the two recent cases of s inside s

2018-04-05 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Hi, sorry for opening up a new thread, but I couldn’t reply to either of the original ones as I had already deleted them. Someone dug out another (I begin to hate it) HTML 5 incompatibility: it allows for “flow content (excluding interactive content)” inside tags, that is, blocks, among others.

Re: [Lynx-dev] parsing

2018-03-29 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Thomas Dickey dixit: >not exactly - as I recall it that's an XHTML feature. No, XHTML has "". >(if you'd like to add to the XHTML support in Lynx, a short patch >would be nice). Not necessary, XHTML basically parses as HTML, except it also parses as XML (though serialising it needs slight chang

Re: [Lynx-dev] help on lynx compilation

2018-03-29 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Thomas Dickey dixit: >Actually Borland's last freely-available compiler was 5.51, and not long You can still get the 5.5 version from their site. >I'd simply remove those older makefiles, but there are probably 2-3 >people who still use them. Last time I built lynx for Win32 I used them. OK, t

Re: [Lynx-dev] ACN Iris 3000 Installation?

2018-03-16 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Ron Piggott dixit: >The phone is Linux based. So just copy a statically linked lynx binary for the phone’s target architecture onto it. bye, //mirabilos -- Stéphane, I actually don’t block Googlemail, they’re just too utterly stupid to successfully deliver to me (or anyone else using Greylistin

[Lynx-dev] empty From header sent

2018-03-14 Thread Thorsten Glaser
./WWW/Library/Implementation/HTTP.c:if (personal_mail_address && !LYNoFromHeader) { This probably should be: if (personal_mail_address && *personal_mail_address && !LYNoFromHeader) { bye, //mirabilos -- Stéphane, I actually don’t block Googlemail, they’re just too utterly stupid t

Re: [Lynx-dev] Document reload

2018-02-02 Thread Thorsten Glaser
iohann dixit: > When I visit Wiktionary, consult a word, then leave Wiktionary, then > attempt to return to the site, I receive the message below. Lynx will > not go back to the page. How come? Known bug in all Wikimedia sites. If you upgrade to the latest lynx (development) release, it contains

Re: [Lynx-dev] 'Bad html!! use -trace to diagnose'

2018-01-24 Thread Thorsten Glaser
russellb...@gmail.com dixit: > > http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(17)32848-9/fulltext OK, I can reproduce the issue there. This is indeed a case where … is not contained in an HTML form (instead, it appears to be read from ECMAscript but it still needs to be

Re: [Lynx-dev] 'Bad html!! use -trace to diagnose'

2018-01-23 Thread Thorsten Glaser
russellb...@gmail.com dixit: >Yes. I download the article and view a local copy but the >experience is the same. > >>'I did reach the article, no bad html errors' >Perhaps you missed it in the prolonged URI changes. No, I have the same. Perhaps it only occurs when you’re logged in, as I cannot r

Re: [Lynx-dev] lynx uses the last title

2018-01-14 Thread Thorsten Glaser
David Woolley dixit: > be invalid HTML for there to be more than one title element Yes, but lynx also uses the inside an inline SVG, as seen on geocaching.com. bye, //mirabilos -- Stéphane, I actually don’t block Googlemail, they’re just too utterly stupid to successfully deliver to me (or any

Re: [Lynx-dev] Ž rendered as cedilla

2017-12-12 Thread Thorsten Glaser
russellb...@gmail.com dixit: > 'U+017d is the correct code point for Latin Capital Letter Z >with caron, and what should be used in HTML entity values.' > It's b4 in iso-8859-15. The purpose of the chrtrans tables >are to translate HTML into target characters, in other words HTML 17d

Re: [Lynx-dev] Versions of Lynx and How They Got Here

2017-11-02 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Martin McCormick dixit: > when I ran nc -v braille.wunderground.com 443, The wheezy >system confirmed that there was a connection. > >$nc -v braille.wunderground.com 443 >Connection to braille.wunderground.com 443 port [tcp/https] succeeded! Does the jessie system do the same? bye, //mirab

Re: [Lynx-dev] Versions of Lynx and How They Got Here

2017-11-02 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Hi Martin, >works quite well on a Debian wheezy system but bombs out on a >Debian jessie system with the complaint that it can't find the >start file. This looks like an SSL error, but I can visit that page with MirBSD (old OpenSSL, older lynx), Debian wheezy, jessie and sid (GnuTLS, various ages

Re: [Lynx-dev] Problems accessing wikipedia with lynx 2.8.8

2017-10-27 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Thomas Dickey dixit: >sounds like this: >https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=863008 That (what zefram posted there) is exactly it, and I can confirm older lynx versions to exhibit this problem. So I guess we should just update. bye, //mirabilos -- Support mksh as /bin/sh and RoQA

Re: [Lynx-dev] Is there a swift fix for this problem?

2017-09-23 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Karen Lewellen dixit: > submit produces a "bad html no form has been defined error." Ask the one who wrote the site to fix their HTML? Hard to say without the exact HTML in question, which you didn’t attach to the eMail. > can change that might let the form send? There *is* typing “:submit” wh

Re: [Lynx-dev] The ^Xe Puzzle: How do (or did) Lynx users on OpenVMS open external editors for form fields?

2017-07-24 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Guy Broome dixit: > - Using Ctrl-X e, ESC Ctrl-X e, Ctrl-V e, etc. Old lynx versions had ^Ve which needed to be typed as ^V^Ve because ^V was handled specially (escaping). Try ^V^Ve and ^V^Xe perhaps. Otherwise, change the keybinding in the config? Good luck, //mirabilos -- 11:56⎜«liwakura:

Re: [Lynx-dev] Maps

2017-07-19 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Kyle Toney dixit: >Can Lynx bring up telnet mapscii.me lynx telnet://mapscii.me Duh. But you could just start telnet directly. One tool, one job, Unix. hf, //mirabilos -- 18:47⎜ well channels… you see, I see everything in the same window anyway 18:48⎜ i know, you have some kind of telnet

Re: [Lynx-dev] Search results deprecate link numbers

2017-07-13 Thread Thorsten Glaser
russellb...@gmail.com dixit: >page without reading it. I use the link's number as a search target. >If the target number appears on the page otherwise, lynx jumps to it >instead, even if it's further away. Search with [number or number] or [number]. Or type n… The search begins IIRC at either t

Re: [Lynx-dev] [PATCH] rm "Excellent!!!" annoyance

2017-07-12 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Hi Martijn, >>When I accidentally press Q and then type N to cancel the quit, lynx >>goes "Excellent!!!", blocking the interface for one full second. I could that time is configurable ☺ Hey XTaran, >Meh, that's one of the funny parts in Lynx. Like the Nethack mode in >GNU Screen. (Which has be

Re: [Lynx-dev] Bug report - hang

2017-06-19 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Thomas Dickey dixit: >> Thanks for having a look. Since it is a rare occurrence (but not unique just >> the latest one I have found), I expect it is definitely something weird the >> website is doing. Yet should a webserver be able to hang a browser? > >It might be nice to implement some timeout

Re: [Lynx-dev] Problems using wikipedia

2017-06-11 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Karen Lewellen dixit: > Its one of those options with an ! meaning the change cannot be saved. > Perhaps > something to consider changing in future? You can change that in lynx.cfg. In mine, I made all options that could possibly make sense changeable, that is, all but: * Use locale-based char

Re: [Lynx-dev] Error uncompressing temporary file (gzip)

2017-06-10 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Okash Khawaja dixit: >I also tried to uncompress the gzipped file by hand, using gzip and >that failed with error: > >gzip:L681-4152TMP.html.gz: unexpected end of file > >Running gzip -t on that file also gives the same message. Version Can you send me the exact file? >/usr/bin/gzip -d --no-nam

Re: [Lynx-dev] Problems using wikipedia

2017-06-10 Thread Thorsten Glaser
-dan d. dixit: > In it it says nothing about the string: > > [36][(1) > > Per the lynx.cfg info I used only "none". What is the purpose of the number > string? That is the output when the links-and-form-fields-are-numbered option is enabled, for quick navigation, so you can just ignore it. bye

Re: [Lynx-dev] Problems using wikipedia

2017-06-09 Thread Thorsten Glaser
-dan d. dixit: > A slightly older release of lynx on a remote shell account works as before. > > This would appear to exclude a wiki problem. Yet, it only appears to. This is, again, almost certainly a problem with wrongly labelled compressed data. Set this in (O)ptions, then retry: Preferred

Re: [Lynx-dev] Fixing some warnings.

2017-06-05 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Juan Manuel Guerrero dixit: > - if (me->object_title == '\0') { > + if (*me->object_title == '\0') { > FREE(me->object_title); I think a NULL pointer comparison was intended here, and that this patch may introduce use-after-free bugs. However

Re: [Lynx-dev] ASCII Esperanto surrogates

2017-05-12 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Hal.sz S.ndor dixit: > of much spelling reform. Is there no Esperanto fan in the Unicode crowd? Isn’t Esperanto “out” and replaced by Toki Pona nowadays? ;-) bye, //mirabilos PS: Toki Pona can be written with Latin letters or (extended) Katakana PPS: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toki_Pona -- 2

Re: [Lynx-dev] Problems accessing wikipedia with lynx 2.8.8

2017-05-07 Thread Thorsten Glaser
vse...@iglou.com dixit: >Alert!: Error uncompressing temporary file! Try this in (O)ptions: Preferred encoding : [36][(1)__None] Meh, it seems like people mislabelling compressed streams is becoming _more_ common instead of less ☹ bye, //mirabilos -- (gnutls can also be us

Re: [Lynx-dev] Retrying without TLS and other Fun Things

2017-04-11 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Hi, DuckDuckGo works with SSL with lynx on Debian jessie for me, using lynx as packaged in Debian. On wheezy, too. bye, //mirabilos -- (gnutls can also be used, but if you are compiling lynx for your own use, there is no reason to consider using that package) -- Thomas E. Dickey on the L

Re: [Lynx-dev] can Lynx do this somewhat GUI-type task?

2017-03-10 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Michael Jones dixit: >If I use Lynx, I can google for "burger places new york ny" I do not >have the option to see the "More places." Eh, ask Google why they’re hiding it? bye, //mirabilos -- Stéphane, I actually don’t block Googlemail, they’re just too utterly stupid to successfully deliver to

Re: [Lynx-dev] Lynx on Linux / automating a search via a script or macro

2017-01-21 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Michael Jones dixit: >I want to automate a Google search for "foo bar." Put this into your shell initialisation file: # GooGle Search ggs() { local _q _IFS _IFS=$IFS IFS=+ _q="$*" IFS=$_IFS ${BROWSER:-lynx} "http://www.google.com/search?hl=la&pws

Re: [Lynx-dev] Wrapping line behavior

2017-01-21 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Chuck Martin dixit: >I use screen, and have no problem copying long URLs. Use 'c' to mark >the first column before selecting any text, and 'J' to join lines >before completing the selection. Oh, I didn’t know this either ;) but that only helps when the paste destination is also in GNU screen and

Re: [Lynx-dev] Wrapping line behavior

2017-01-15 Thread Thorsten Glaser
patak...@users.sourceforge.jp dixit: >Attached files are the test file and screen shots of 2.8.8dev.9 and >2.8.8dev.10. >I tried with slang. Hmm, in Debian (2.8.9dev.11), it looks the same as in MirBSD (2.8.8dev.16); both use ncursesw. Both look like your “before” so did you mean 2.8.9dev.{9,10}

Re: [Lynx-dev] Unexpected behavior downloading Lynx's binary

2017-01-05 Thread Thorsten Glaser
L A Walsh dixit: >>>Or were you expressing a bit of sarcasm in your thanking me for >>>repeating your point? Probably ;-) > patak...@cat.email.ne.jp wrote: >> I'm sorry to confuse you and the delay in my reply. >> I wanted to report 2 unexpected behaviors in downloading file. >> 1. Lynx saves t

Re: [Lynx-dev] Unexpected behavior downloading Lynx's binary

2017-01-01 Thread Thorsten Glaser
L A Walsh dixit: > The "Content-Encoding" gzip is a feature of many web-server software > packages. Your client would automatically uncompress it before > storing it. This is independent of any file format. That’s precisely what I said, thank you for repeating it. bye, //mirabilos -- Stéphane

Re: [Lynx-dev] Unexpected behavior downloading Lynx's binary

2016-12-31 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Thomas Dickey dixit: >> According to the trace log, the server sent "Content-Encoding: gzip" >> in the response header in both cases. I think the client should >> store uncompressed files in these cases. > >hmm - just ".tar" ? > >(but then the server would not provide bzip2...) No. What he means

Re: [Lynx-dev] SSL Common Name issue & Form Submissions in Lynx

2016-12-04 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Menasheh Peromsik dixit: >However, as part of my script keyed in to log into the WiFi, I press y to >ignore the common name issue. The common name issue appears whenever I go Captive portals have this *by design*: they *cannot* *ever* present a valid SSL certificate. bye, //mirabilos -- (gnutl

Re: [Lynx-dev] Few suggestions to improve the UI.

2016-11-22 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Hart Larry dixit: > Actually, while I am not a programmer, nor have I been following this thread > so > closely, instead of searching in a source-code, why not run an external > through > urlview? Without lack of context, I can only assume you refer to this… >> it properly. Most hide things be

Re: [Lynx-dev] Few suggestions to improve the UI.

2016-11-22 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Ashutosh Sharma dixit: >1. The navigation part of many sites becomes extensively long and makes it >difficult to access the important content on sites. If the lists with >class="*-nav" or id="nav" could be condensed into one link and expanded on >selection, it would make a huge difference in the u

Re: [Lynx-dev] CVE-2016-9179 (invalid URL parsing with '?')

2016-11-14 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Brian May dixit: >Am I correct in my understanding that upstream Lynx development has no >publicly accessible revision control system (cvs, svn, git, etc) for >hosting their source code? Yes, Tom Dickey (lynx, ncurses, xterm, cdk, …) uses PRCS, which is a single-user system like RCS AIUI and does

Re: [Lynx-dev] what user agent header?

2016-11-04 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Karen Lewellen dixit: > I am no technician, so was unclear how to simulate the googlebot element? Probably by setting the User-Agent header to the exact value shown below, without the quotes: "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)" bye, //mirabilos -- >> Why

Re: [Lynx-dev] Out of curiosity, what are the plans for http2?

2016-09-06 Thread Thorsten Glaser
David Niklas dixit: >Http2 is a fast developing standard being deployed by big internet >servers. It has several advantages over http 1.1. It also has several disadvantages. //mirabilos -- Stéphane, I actually don’t block Googlemail, they’re just too utterly stupid to successfully deliver to me

Re: [Lynx-dev] date of last lynx update?

2016-08-23 Thread Thorsten Glaser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA384 Karen Lewellen dixit: > Now can I use this email officially? or should the word come from Thomas? The homepage - http://lynx.invisible-island.net/ - has the official dates. I do not represent the project, but you can take my statement… whatever.

Re: [Lynx-dev] date of last lynx update?

2016-08-23 Thread Thorsten Glaser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA384 Karen Lewellen dixit: > so, what is the last update? something I can state as legal confirmation? What exactly do you mean update? If you mean release: The current "stable" Lynx 2.8.8 was released on 14 February 2014. The current "development"

Re: [Lynx-dev] Problem when downloading *.gz files

2016-08-15 Thread Thorsten Glaser
John J. Boyer dixit: >Thanks. but what I am reporting is that after I find the link in Lynx >and press d to download the file it doesn't download properly. I've lnly >experienced this problem with html.gz files. It shouldn't be necessary Oh! This is likely a bug in the *server*, as the pages are

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