Re: lynx and google.com
On (06/05/04 11:14), William Ballard wrote:
> On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 06:57:52PM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote:
> > On (06/05/04 09:23), William Ballard wrote:
> > > Has anybody tried 'lynx google.com' lately?
> > >
> > > You get HTTP/1.0 400 Bad Request. It only started happening about 2
> > > weeks ago.
> > I presume you're running sid - it works fine on woody but my sid system
> > produces the same result - I guess lynx is the problem. Perhaps you
> > should file a bug report.
>
> FWIW, I downloaded Stable lynx, extracted it to my home directory, and
> ran it from there and it was broken too. I know that doesn't mean it's
> still not something sid-related, but the only things lynx depends on are
> libc6, zlib1g, and mime-support.
>
> It could also be explained by the fact that you are getting different
> servers from the two different boxes. Try "www.google.com" from the
> broken box and see if that works -- it did for me, for a few days, with
> no change to Lynx in the intervening time.
Nope, sid still gives "Bad Request".
However, debian.org works fine ...... curious ....because
http://www.google.com definitely won't work on my sid box. One of
life's little mysteries ;)
Regards
Clive
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