@Stuart, this hasn't been fixed in existing releases of w3m - specifically Ubuntu LTS 10.04 - 0.5.2-2.1ubuntu1.1 doesn't contain the fix.
While I'm very sympathetic to not having to do sniffing, it seems prudent to me to implement the sniffing to cater for machines with plain LTS 10.04.
@Stuart, this hasn't been fixed in existing releases of w3m - specifically Ubuntu LTS 10.04 - 0.5.2-2.1ubuntu1.1 doesn't contain the fix.
While I'm very sympathetic to not having to do sniffing, it seems prudent to me to implement the sniffing to cater for machines with plain LTS 10.04.