Re: lynx-dev Re: unanswered query (1): 2-8 bug

[Lloyd G. Rasmussen]

You didn't, by any chance, disable cookie support?  For some reason, 
the CRL site wants cookies, which is really not a good thing for the 
Lynx help page, even though Lynx does cookies.


On Mon, 15 Jun 1998 09:32:52 +0100, 
Pete Phillips  <address@hidden> wrote:

>>>>>> "Philip" == Philip Webb <address@hidden> writes:
>
>
>    Philip> 980604 Pete Phillips wrote (compressed a bit):
>    >> When I press "?" for help, I get
>    >>> A Fatal error has occurred in Lynx Ver. 2.8rel.2 Lynx now
>    >>> exiting with signal: 11 zsh: 17735 IOT instruction ...........
>    >> lynx 2.7 is fine.  With the -trace flag, I get: HTParse:
>    >> result:www.crl.com Getting
>    >> www.crl.com/~subir/lynx/lynx_help/lynx_help_main.html HTParse:
>    >> aName:http://www.crl.com/~subir/lynx/lynx_help/lynx_help_main.html
>    Philip> -- snip --
>    >> HTParse:
>    >> aName:http://www.crl.com/~subir/lynx/lynx_help/lynx_help_main.html
>    >> relatedName: HTParse: result:www.crl.com Looking up
>    >> www.crl.com.  zsh: 17756 segmentation fault lynx -trace
> 
>    Philip> no-one appears to have been able to answer this one: NB Mr
>    Philip> Phillips has no problem with 2-7, so it does seem to be a
>    Philip> bug or at least a change of behaviour in 2-8.
>
>
>Hi
>
>I have just compiled Version 2.8rel.2 (1998) and still have the same
>problem - certain web sites seem to crash lynx.
>
>Anytime I try to get through to http://www.crl.com/ it crashes as
>above, but http://www.slcc.edu/lynx/faq.html for example, works fine.
>
>Wierd stuff, huh ?
>
>Anything I can do do help diagnose this ?
>
>Pete
>

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