On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 12:40:05PM -0400, Mark Richards wrote: > I am attempting to integrate Lynx with an application. The system, > operating in win32, is built using CA Visual Objects. VO has a RUN facility > which opens a dos command shell. I also use a 3d party library, Funcky, > which provides a nicer equivalent. > > When attempting to perform a lynx -dump on the url: > http://www.mbta.com/traveling_t/transitupdates.asp Lynx works perfectly at > the command line. However when it is launched from the CA-VO application, > it fails, and according to its log, hangs at: > > Looking up www.mbta.com > HTParseInet: parsing `www.mbta.com'. > LYGetHostByName: parsing `www.mbta.com'. > > What is LYGetHostByName doing exactly? What's interesting is that this is > the only URL that fails.
I'd suspect a timing or synchronization problem, etc. (in lynx). This is in the code which implements NSL_FORK. > I did an ip lookup on www.mbta.com, which returns 140.239.76.60 > (eagles.mbta.com). However a simple http request to this ip returns, "No > web site is configured at this address". It appears this web site is way > behind a firewall and is further protected with some type of address > translation scheme. > > What seems strange is that Lynx will resolve this address perfectly when it > is operated directly on the command line, but when spawned from CA-VO, it > fails. > > I'd appreciate any suggestions. Perhaps there's a switch in Lynx that I am > not aware of which might help? > > Mark Richards > > > > ; To UNSUBSCRIBE: Send "unsubscribe lynx-dev" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Thomas E. Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://dickey.his.com ftp://dickey.his.com ; To UNSUBSCRIBE: Send "unsubscribe lynx-dev" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
