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Peter Castine |
Subject: |
lynx-dev Lynx and Virtual Hosts |
Date: |
Thu, 16 Dec 1999 00:43:29 +0100 |
Dear collected wisdom,
I'm not sure this is the best list for this question, but it's the only
one I've found for Lynx-related matters and I'm getting a little
desperate. If there is a more appropriate list, I'll just need one
pointer and get on my way...
Q: Are there any known issues surrounding Lynx and Virtual Hosts (as
implemented by Apache)?
Background: I've webmastered a couple of WWW Sites, most recently one for
a conference which I am organizing next year. I've recently had a query
from someone trying to visit our site with Lynx and only getting a terse
error message referring to "error.html". I'd stumbled over the same
problem myself the night before and at first I thought it was some
configuration problem on the Unix box I was using. I usually make a point
of checking sites I'm involved with under Lynx, just to make sure that
the non-graphic information is coming over in a reasonable manner.
Trying to get to the bottom of this issue, I tried a couple of other
sites and noticed one in particular where multiple virtual hosts are
running on one machine and instead of getting the virtual host it seemed
that Lynx was redirecting me to the "canonical" name associated with the
IP number. This is what prompted my virt.host question.
This is particularly disturbing because I always check my sites for HTML
compatibility with several tools, including the W3C validator (the site
in question is not 100%, but nothing that should cause a browser to
hiccough).
Anyway, if someone wants to try their luck, the site that's not liked by
Lynx at all is:
<http://www.icmc2000.org/>
and the site that was misdirected is:
<http://www.transparency.de/>
Both sites respond quite reasonably to Mozilla, IE and iCab in various
flavors and on the available platforms.
I would dearly like to know what the devil's goin' on here.
Cheers,
Peter
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Peter Castine <=