Re: lynx and google.com
On 07 May 2004, Clive Menzies wrote:
> 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 ;)
>
Odd: it works OK with Sid here.
Anthony
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