Hello, A major job search web site doesn't work with lynx because of the following problem.
An anchor tag contains a CGI query string with multiple parameters with names beginning with pi_ . Lynx sees the preceeding ampersand and interprets the '&pi' as though it were an entity reference, with the result that the string '&pi' is replaced by the UTF-8 encoding for π . I.e. <a href="http://www.domain.com/some.cgi?pi_x=1&pi_y=0";>link</a> turns into a request for http://www.domain.com/some.cgi?pi_x=1%CF%80_y=0 I don't know why the parser does not insist upon the terminating semicolon being present, presumably for compatibility with non-w3c compliant web pages. The following corrects this behaviour for this special case. --- src/LYCharUtils.c.orig Tue May 28 15:41:42 2002 +++ src/LYCharUtils.c Mon Aug 12 15:41:19 2002 @@ -1885,7 +1885,7 @@ ** if &yz string happened to be a recognized entity name. - LP */ if ( ((code = HTMLGetEntityUCValue(name)) > 0) && - !((cpe == '=') && (stype == st_URL)) ) { + !(((cpe == '=') || (cpe == '_')) && (stype == st_URL)) ) { state = S_check_uni; break; } -- Steve Harvey ; To UNSUBSCRIBE: Send "unsubscribe lynx-dev" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
