Okay, so there is no proxy server from your post. What is the result of simple telnet GET requests to port 80? Can you maintain a connection with an HTTP/1.1 request using this method? Do you have an example of the fetch program in question? Aside from "guessing" server responses to speed things up, lynx runs a fairly straightforward network socket connection to port 80 AFAIK.
__Stef http://caunter.ca/contact.html On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, J Willard Gibbs wrote: > Sorry for the bother but if anyone can clue me in I would really appreciate > it. > > Thing is, on my heavily policed network, lynx can fetch html documents from > a given website with no problem. However with C(BSD Sockets), Perl (LWP) and > Java (URL/URLConnection), I get connection timeouts every time. Java even > provides automatic Proxy detection although when I do that part in isolation > it seems to indicate that it would try to use a direct connection. > > What is lynx (or IE for that matter) doing to make the connection to the > server, that my simplistic fetch programs don't do? > > I tried looking at the lynx source code but it was simply too large and > complex for me to try to put together some ideas on this specific question. > It is also not possible for me to read the network directly, or else I would > simply observe what lynx is doing at that level, and emulate it. > > Thanks! > > _________________________________________________________________ > Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! > http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Lynx-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lynx-dev > > _______________________________________________ Lynx-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lynx-dev
