Re: [Lynx-dev] Visiting http://reddit.com/ causes segfault.

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, 22 Dec 2008, Atsuhito Kohda wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I got a bug report which claimed as follows and I confirmed it.
>
> On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 18:50:38 +1000, Aaron Howell wrote:
>
> > When you visit http://reddit.com/, either from the command line
> > or from the goto option within Lynx, Lynx crashes immediately
> > with signal 11.
> > For this particular site, the problem can be worked around by
> > adding www. to the url, however the problem occurs with other
> > sites as well, its just that this one is particularly easy to verify.
> > Seems to happen 100% of the time.
> > This problem is new to this version of Lynx, the previous lynx-cur
> > package was ok.
>
> It is true that this is new to lynx 2.8.7dev11 (with patch dev11a.patch).
>
> Is this a bug or something else (for example, my packaging problem).

it's a bug (I was able to reproduce it with my own compile of lynx).
I'll send a fix this evening.

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