Re: [Lynx-dev] error decompressing temporary file?

[Karen Lewellen]

Actually this gets more interesting.
After I posted this, I went back into our dreamhost shell structure.
there lynx options menu also uses all, which was the case with shellworld 
before  I changed it.
however they are using an older edition of lynx,
also we have an older edition here, that Ken keeps in case we have an issue 
like his one.
I could log into paypal using this, so am wondering about  his latest 
edition of  lynx ?
Makes no sense that it would start suddenly as it has however, we have 
been using this one for a while I believe.
last number is 15 or 16, I have to be looking at the page, where as the 
dreamhost one is 5 and the lynx.old one here is 7.
I can only get in with one one now if I change the preferred encoding to 
compress, which is not saved regardless.
Karen

On Wed, 27 Nov 2013, Thomas Dickey wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 11:13:40PM -0500, Karen Lewellen wrote:
> > Hi,
> > new question about this?
> > Shellworld took a short and unexpected nap this evening.
> > So I tried logging into paypal from the ssh telnet shell for the
> > company that hosts our nonprofit organization's domain.  dreamhost
> > has lynx too.
> > Without my changing anything,i was able to log in.  I had never done
> > it, so  all the cookies we renew.
> > I came back into shellworld once awake, tried it again, and could
> > not in.
> > so I checked the preferred encoding, and it was set to all.
> > So I changed it to compressed, and was able to get in here as well.
> > My question is what that setting should be for most flexibility?
> > I can get into paypal now yes, but am wondering what might be an
> > issue. Unless  our having it set for all actually was more
> > restrictive?
>
> "all" is technically least-restrictive, since it says Lynx will accept
> all of those compression types.  It's possible that the server is sending
> something with "deflate" compression (there's no standard external program
> for that, though I might bundle one with Lynx...).
>
> > Thanks,
> > Karen
> >
> > On Fri, 22 Nov 2013, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 10:29:08PM -0500, Karen Lewellen wrote:
> > > > Hi Folks,
> > > > Can someone share what normally causes this issue?
> > > > eBay used to have this then it was removed.  now paypal which worked
> > > > with lynx well until about a week ago has this problem.
> > > > I am speaking with someone in their executive office tomorrow so
> > > > want to explain  with more than just my experience if I can.
> > >
> > > If the problem is temporary (eBay) using the same client,
> > > then that sounds like the server.  It's possible that an
> > > upgrade changed the real compression to/from deflate, which
> > > you may/may not have (there was some instance of that a few
> > > years ago).  You can configure lynx to say it won't accept
> > > compressed pages to help narrow it down (the "Preferred Encoding"
> > > selection in the options menu).
> > >
> > > --
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>
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