On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Walter Ian Kaye wrote: > At 06:08a -0400 08/01/2002, Thomas Dickey didst inscribe upon an > electronic papyrus: > > > > I have been using Lynx to test how our site appears in a pure text browser. > > > One thing that is causing me a problem though is links to PDFs, Word docs > > > etc. Unlike "real" browsers, Lynx doesn't seem to respond to these files by > > > offering to download them. Instead it gives a 404 error. Is this a bug in > > > Lynx or am I doing something wrong (either with the serving of these files or > > > with using Lynx)? > > > >I occasionally download pdf files with lynx, and don't recall problems with > >that. Do you have a test url in mind? > > My money's on spaces in a filename, and an unencoded reference.
that was why I asked, so we can focus on something specific. > who just got the first spam addressed his lynx-dev email address > (looks like someone's harvesting from this list) I hadn't noticed that one (but I tend to delete it w/o reading closely, other than noting the permutations of the Nigerian con scheme). -- T.E.Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net ; To UNSUBSCRIBE: Send "unsubscribe lynx-dev" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
