On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 09:29:06AM -0600, Karl Berry wrote: > A few days ago, my local public library system (which is running koha) > started returning the http error "503 service unavailable" with lynx and > links to any search url, for example: > https://coastlinelibrarynetwork.org/cgi-bin/koha/opac-search.pl?advsearch=1&idx=ti%2Cphr&q=these+precious+days&op=and&idx=au%2Cwrdl&q=ann+patchett&do=Search
that works for me with current lynx. I checked this in case there was some unexpected side-effect from the recent changes in dev.9 (but this is of course the copy that I compiled for myself). > The normal result would be a page saying "No results found" (expected, > since this book hasn't been published yet). It's the same 503 error for > searches on existing items. > > It works fine with graphical browsers (firefox, chrome, seamonkey), and > wget returns the page source, which is full of JavaScript. The site has > worked fine with lynx for many years. The library home page > (https://coastlinelibrarynetwork.org) does come up with lynx, but not > the searches. > > I've tried different user-agent strings and assorted other options, but > nothing seems to make a difference. My guess is that something in the > JavaScript is aborting with the 503. I was able to activate the "button", which isn't a _new_ feature. > Any ideas on how to proceed? Is there a plausible way to get JavaScript > in lynx? I couldn't find anything that looked feasible to me on the no... > web. The librarians and/or their tech support (a company named Bywater) > would help me if they could, but they know nothing about lynx. I've > failed to find anything on the web. > > This is under CentOS7.9 with the current version of lynx > (2.8.9rel.1 (08 Jul 2018)), which I compiled from the original source, The development version is 2.9.0dev.9 (I did notice that 2.8.9 was 3 years old, but other programs have their own problems...). > as well as the old distro version (2.8.8dev.15 (18 Nov 2012)). > > I haven't tried a headless firefox/chrome/whatever yet. > I guess that will be my next effort. > > Any help appreciated. --thanks, karl. I'd try 2.9.0dev.9 before digging too deeply into problems. -- Thomas E. Dickey <dic...@invisible-island.net> https://invisible-island.net ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net
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