Hi, Inspiring from your trace, I hand-crafted requests and submitted them with netcat6 [1] to host 64.233.167.104 on port 80. My diagnose would be that there is a very weird buffer-overflow in Google's server with regard to "Accept:" headers. Depending on the number of "Accept:" headers and their size, the request fails (400) or succeeds (302 in my case: redicrection to google.be). E.g., the following:
GET / HTTP/1.0 Host: www.google.com Accept: text/html Accept: text/html Accept: text/html Accept: text/html Accept: text/html Accept: text/html Accept: text/html Accept: text/html Accept: text/html Accept: text/html Accept: text/html Accept: text/html Accept: text/html Accept: text/html Accept: text/html Accept: text/html Accept: text/html Accept: text/html Accept: text/html Accept: text/html Accept: text/html Accept: text/html Accept: text/html Accept: text/html Accept: text/html Accept: text/html Accept: text/html Accept: text/html Accept: text/html Accept: text/html Accept: text/html Accept: text/html Accept: text/html Accept: text/html Accept: text/html Accept: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx is OK. But if you add a character on any line or append another "Accept:" line (even an empty one!), you'll get a 400-Bad-request. The actual contents does not seem to matter. For instance, replacing some or all of the x's by "text/html, text/html, ..." yields the same result. I've got variants with more "text/html"'s per line, requiring more or less long last line. E.g: GET / HTTP/1.0 Host: www.google.com Accept: text/html, text/html, text/html, text/html Accept: text/html, text/html, text/html, text/html Accept: text/html, text/html, text/html, text/html Accept: text/html, text/html, text/html, text/html Accept: text/html, text/html, text/html, text/html Accept: text/html, text/html, text/html, text/html Accept: text/html, text/html, text/html, text/html Accept: text/html, text/html, text/html, text/html Accept: text/html, text/html, text/html, text/html Accept: text/html, text/html, text/html, text/html Accept: text/html, text/html, text/html, text/html Accept: text/html, text/html, text/html, text/html Accept: text/html, text/html, text/html, text/html Accept: text/html, text/html, text/html, text/html Accept: text/html, text/html, text/html, text/html Accept: text/html, text/html, text/html, text/html Accept: text/html, text/html, text/html, text/html Accept: text/html, text/html, text/html, text/html Accept: xxxxxx I dont understand exactly what overflows when. (Cf. a similar problem discussed in August 2002 on this list: e.g, http://www.sysinternals.com server returned a 406 when the "Accept:"-headers totalized more than 256 characters - but this was an IIS; isn't google supposed to use Linux ? :). Conclusion: I don't really see how lynx should handle this differently. Maybe check how other browsers handle a lot of mimetypes ? Possible workaround: simplify your ~/.mailcap (e.g. merge subtypes into "image/*", "video/*", "audio/*"). Anyway, you could try to temporarily rename your ~/.mailcap (and maybe its system-wide equivalent) and try to access goggle to confirm that this is indeed the issue. Regards, - Serge [1] http://netcat6.sourceforge.net/ On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 10:33:24AM -0400, Larry W. Virden wrote: [...] > HTParseInet: Parsed address as port 80, IP address 64.233.167.104 [...] > Writing: > GET / HTTP/1.0\r > Host: www.google.com\r > Accept: text/html, text/plain, application/vnd.sun.xml.writer, > application/vnd.sun.xml.writer.global, application/vnd.stardivision.writer, > application/vnd.stardivision.writer-global, application/x-starwriter, > application/vnd.sun.xml.writer.template\r > Accept: application/vnd.sun.xml.calc, application/vnd.stardivision.calc, > application/x-starcalc, application/vnd.sun.xml.calc.template, > application/vnd.sun.xml.impress, application/vnd.stardivision.impress, > application/vnd.stardivision.impress-packed\r > Accept: application/x-starimpress, application/vnd.sun.xml.impress.template, > application/vnd.sun.xml.draw, application/vnd.stardivision.draw, > application/x-stardraw, application/vnd.sun.xml.draw.template, > application/vnd.sun.xml.math\r > Accept: application/vnd.stardivision.math, application/x-starmath, > audio/x-mpegurl, image/jpeg, image/gif, image/x-xwd, image/postscript, image/ps, > image/*, message/partial, message/external-body, application/x-dvi, > application/postscript, x-be2\r > Accept: application/andrew-inset, text/richtext, text/enriched, > application/framemaker, application/view_pctdoc, application/x-tgif, > multipart/enabled-mail, application/safe-tcl, application/x-ccitcl, > application/pgp, application/applefile\r > Accept: text/tab-separated-values, application/x-chat, application/x-xdma, > application/x-rasmol, application/x-wt, video/x-mpeg, x-world/x-vrml, > application/x-candleweb, x-conference/x-cooltalk, audio/midi, application/x-bzip2, > application/marimba\r > Accept: application/pdf, video/quicktime, video/x-ms-asf, video/x-ms-wmv, > video/x-ms-wvx, audio/x-ms-wax, audio/x-ms-wma, video/x-ms-asf-plugin, > application/x-mplayer2, video/x-ms-wm, video/x-ms-wmx, video/x-ms-wmp, > application/x-java-jnlp-file\r > Accept: video/mpeg, video/x-msvideo, video/x-mpeg2, audio/x-pn-realaudio, > audio/vnd.rn-realaudio, application/smil, text/vnd.rn-realtext, > video/vnd.rn-realvideo, application/x-shockwave-flash2-preview, application/sdp, > application/x-sdp\r > Accept: application/vnd.rn-realmedia, audio/wav, audio/x-wav, audio/x-pn-wav, > audio/x-pn-windows-acm, audio/basic, audio/x-pn-au, audio/aiff, audio/x-aiff, > audio/x-pn-aiff, text/sgml, */*;q=0.01\r > Accept-Encoding: gzip, compress\r > Accept-Language: en\r > User-Agent: Lynx/2.8.5dev.16 libwww-FM/2.14 SSL-MM/1.4.1 OpenSSL/0.9.6\r > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cookie2: $Version="1"\r > Cookie: PREF=ID=6ecf369a3d4ea08b:TM=1011483183:LM=1033390392:S=EHm4COeBmlVOcgsQ\r > \r _______________________________________________ Lynx-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lynx-dev
