I installed 2.8c yesterday and found that htdig searches then failed. Patching the wwwoffle-htsearch script, I see that htsearch produces html on its standard output and that this should get routed back to the browser. The same output was produced with 2.8c and 2.8b, so the search was executing correctly.
However (using lynx which seem to give the best commentary) with 2.8b I get "HTTP/1.0 200 htsearch output" followed after a delay with the result, whereas with 2.8c I get "HTTP request sent; waiting for response." followed after a delay by "Alert!: Unexpected network read error; connection aborted." and then "Alert!: Unable to access document." (Presumably the "request sent" always happens, but is normally overwritten before one sees it.) Other browsers just give the "page not found" screen. I haven't analysed how wwwoffled gets the search output to the browser, other than to see that the coding has changed significantly. I presume that either the output is not getting sent back or that the connection is closing prematurely. One or two other odd things happened during my testing, but I think the above are the crucial ones. I'm using Linux 2.2.26 and htdig 3.1.6. I have now reverted to using 2.8b. -- John F Hall
