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Re: [Lynx-dev] lynx2.8.7pre.5 distrowatch.com


From: Thomas Dickey
Subject: Re: [Lynx-dev] lynx2.8.7pre.5 distrowatch.com
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:50:33 -0400
User-agent: Mutt/1.3.27i

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 09:14:06PM +0200, bert raven wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I noticed that using lynx2.8.7pre.4 and lynx2.8.7pre.5 I can 
> 
> not visit 'http://distrowatch.com/'.
> 
> 
> ./configure :
> ./configure --enable-color-style --enable-default-colors
> --with-screen=ncurses --enable-gzip-help --enable-externs --enable-cgi-links
> --enable-exec-scripts --enable-exec-links --enable-change-exec 
> --enable-htmlized-cfg
> --with-bzlib --with-zlib --with-gnutls --with-ssl
> 
> 
> The error message is "Alert!: HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden" and
> 
> "You don't have permission to access / on this server."
> 
> while lynx-2.8.6rel.5, Elinks (0.12pre3) and w3m (0.5.2) give no problems.
> 
> Is there a workaround?

It seems to work for me - I just compiled lynx with those options (on
Debian/testing), ran it with an unmodified lynx.cfg, and was able to
connect.  Perhaps the "-trace" option:

        lynx -trace http://distrowatch.com/

would show the reason in $HOME/Lynx.trace

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net




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