On Thu, 27 Sep 2001 12:10:44 -0500, I wrote: > Hello:
> Usually I don't have problems using Arachne on search pages on > web pages, except when the page is very badly infested with > JavaScript. Today I encountered a problem I don't understand. > At the search page named below I recently used Arachne to conduct > a search for Washington Hospital Center of Washington DC. All > I got for a result was an error page saying I should try again > using an entry for the STATE field. I tried this several times, > each time making sure that I selected D.C. as the entry for the > STATE field. Every time I got the same error. In using Lynx386 > for DOS I got about a dozen good results, with complete addresses > and department numbers and phone numbers for all. Does anybody > have any idea why Arachne has a problem with this page? > http://www.infospace.com/info/index_ylw.htm > Yellow Pages - InfoSpace > BTW, I have discovered that there is some JavaScript at the site. > When I do F6 to view source and then press F7 and enter a search > term for "java", Arachne will lock up tight. This happened to me > twice. I had to do a cold re-boot each time. > The site works fine with Lynx386. Like Arachne, Lynx386 isn't > JavaScript capable either. I just found out that the page will work with Arachne if I click on the link for NATIONWIDE SEARCH. It won't search by city and state. Up until just a few minutes ago it would search by city and state with Lynx386. Now it won't work searching by city and state with Lynx386. It will work only under NATIONWIDE SEARCH. Maybe they found out that it was working with Lynx386 while searching by city and state. Well, now they have fixed it so that it will now work only under NATIONWIDE SEARCH. I hope they don't fix it so that it won't work at all anymore. Sam Heywood
