Re: lynx and google.com

[Stephen Patterson <s.patterson@freeuk.com>]

On Sun, 30 May 2004 01:20:28 +0200, Albert Cahalan wrote:


> I think we're getting proxied by Comcast. I have lynx
> in two places, neither of which has been recently upgraded.

*hmmm*  I'm finding the same thing on ntl (UK) though lynx works fine from
my sourceforge account.
 
> 1. how do I verify my suspicion

This little perl script will fetch and print the headers and body for a
single URL (supplied as a command line parameter), so you'll get more info
than in lynx.

#!/usr/bin/perl

use LWP::UserAgent;
my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new(env_proxy => 0,
			     keep_alive => 1,
			     timeout => 30,
			     debug => 1
                             );
my $body = $ua->get($ARGV[0]);
print $body->as_string;

running this with 'www.google.com' gives '400 URL must be absolute' though
'http://www.google.com' works fine in it.

> 2. how do I get past this

You could use w3m, or create a local html doc with this code snippet in it:
<form action="http://www.google.com/search";>
<input maxLength="256" size="30" name="q" value="">
<input type="submit" value="Google Search" name="btnG">
</form>

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