On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 07:20:55PM +0000, [email protected] wrote: > > lynx -version: > > Lynx Version 2.8.7pre.1 (17 Mar 2009) > libwww-FM 2.14, SSL-MM 1.4.1, ncurses 5.6.20080925(wide) > Built on linux-gnu Mar 23 2009 00:11:27 > > -- > > I've no trouble connecting up to a local newsserver > that requires login, interactively, using the .newsauth > file as documented in the > 'URL Schemes Supported in Lynx' document to handle the > login details. > > If, however, I try doing a -dump or -source: > > Connecting to NewsHost ... > Looking up news.lafn.org > Making NNTP connection to news.lafn.org > > lynx: Can't access startfile nntp://news.lafn.org/comp.lang.forth > > -- > > Is this intentional behaviour for lynx or a bug? > > I've nothing to base this on, but my suspicion is that > non-interactively, Lynx is confused about where > to look for the .newsauth file.
It's looking in $HOME/.newsauth A quick check of the code shows it's not overridden by an environment variable, doesn't show up in the "-trace" option. (The account I used to use to test this part is defunct, but I might subscribe to something, for testing it again...) > Another problem with reading news is that I can > look at messages with w3m at textnews.news.cambrium.nl, > but trying the same with lynx, I can get the list of messages, > but trying to look at a specific message produces: > > Network Error: connection lost I see this too - sounds like a bug... > (No such problem with the local server interactively.) > > Any idea if I'm doing something wrong there? > > (I'm on the digest, you might want to CC me for quicker responses.) > > Thanks, Dallas E. Legan II / [email protected] / [email protected] > http://isthereanotherquestion.blogspot.com > ************************************************************************ > "Tekeli-li! Tekeli-li!" > - "At the Mountains of Madness", H.P. > Lovecraft > > --------------------------------------------- > This message was sent using Endymion MailMan. > http://www.endymion.com/products/mailman/ > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Lynx-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lynx-dev -- Thomas E. Dickey <[email protected]> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net _______________________________________________ Lynx-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lynx-dev
