Re: lynx and readme.gz
On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 08:21:10PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> Sounds like you're
> talking about this section:
>
> Security and Privacy
> Cookies : [ask user__]
> Invalid-Cookie Prompting (!) : [prompt normally___]
> SSL Prompting : [prompt normally___]
Yes, that's what I was changing, from "ask_user" to ignore them. But
the setting is not saved.
> If you have this in lynx.cfg
>
> ENABLE_LYNXRC:force_cookie_prompt:ON
>
> then the screen changes to this:
There's only: accept_all_cookies=off
> > Hm, I put that into ~/.lyncrc, with PREFERRED_ENCODING:all enabled
> > ("#" removed). Starting lynx in an xterm and following a link to a
> > gziped file brings up and archive manager. Doing the same on a console
> > makes lynx offer me to either download the file or to cancel.
>
> You can see (at least) part of the problem using lynx's -trace option
> (or toggling to trace with ^T). Lynx should be sending a header saying
> what it's accepting, and the server will tell what it's sending.
>
> Beyond that, it's up to the server to recognize the content type,
> and for lynx to recognize what type of presentation to use.
Apparently it eventually recognizes the content type, that's why it
brings up an archive manager.
> > Hmm, interesting, I tried to display the same file with konquerer,
> > galeon and mozilla, and none of them displays it. But I'm pretty sure
> > that at least mozilla was able to display it when I tried last time
> > --- that can have to do with changing the data in my home directory.
>
> I tried firebox on the same file - didn't view. So we may be talking
> about different cases.
Well, I had my home on different disks that I only recently
installed. That switched back from configurations you get by default
nowadays to configurations I had before.
Mozilla and galeon said application/octet-stream ... I don't know why
lynx eventually brings up an archive manager for that.
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