On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 10:55:59PM -0200, Fr?d?ric L. W. Meunier wrote: > On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 10:25:07PM -0200, Fr?d?ric L. W. Meunier wrote: > > The garbage is gzip'd data. Essentially what is happening is that > > the remote site is sending an error message followed by the actual page > > content which is gzip'd. We encountered a site which misbehaved last > > year - for which I made a workaround (not adding lynx's base-url stuff > > when dumping the page). > > > > Why w3m works? A couple of possibilities to investigate: > > No, it doesn't :-)
sort of. I downloaded 3.2.2 and looked at the code, saw nothing obvious that would do on-the-fly switch from uncompressed to compressed mode. So I forced w3m to have its accept-encoding to say it doesn't accept compression. That let me see the second page - after a few lines of error messages. You can probably do that and see the same thing. > I now logged in. > > Did you try with any GUI browser ? Apparently only IE works. right now I'm working where the only GUI browser at hand is an older Opera release. I can look with the GUI browser in the early morning... > Sounds like a serious problem and I don't see any complaints. > > The webmaster said it works with his Mozilla 1.2. mozilla accepts some things that apparently aren't proper html4 anyway. -- Thomas E. Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net ; To UNSUBSCRIBE: Send "unsubscribe lynx-dev" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
