Re: possible in lynx file download?

[Kumar Appaiah <a.kumar@alumni.iitm.ac.in>]

On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 03:38:32PM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote:
> 
> On Macs (an apple macintosh G4, running debian squeeze) I use lynx
> to download cd-images from cdimage.debian.org.  I have no problem
> getting CD ".iso" images. (Except that it seems to prefer IPv6,
> which is significantly slower for me than IPv4. Is there a config
> option to change that behavior?)
> 
> But when I try downloading the MD5SUMS file from the same directory,
> I get a few lines of HTML pre-pended to the downloaded file.
> 
> Has anybody else seen this behavior?  Am I doing something wrong?
> Is this a bug in Lynx?

I see this behaviour in Lynx as well. elinks, however, does it as
expected. As for Lynx, if you have to use it, one workaround is to
browse to the MD5SUMS, and then use the "P" button to print it, which
allows you to save it to a file.

I have no clue about the IPV6 issue, though.

Kumar
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