Lynx cannot access www.google.com (400 error)
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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lynx (Debian) |
Fix Released
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Unknown
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lynx (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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High
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
When attempting to access www.google.com using Lynx, I receive a "400 Bad
Request" error. AFter doing some searching I came across
http://
that Lynx is using the information in /etc/mailcap to send a huge Accept: header
and google doesn't like it. I know that this problems occurs for several other
people (we spoke about this issue on #ubuntu one day and several people confirmed).
Fix: In /etc/lynx.cfg, I edited "GLOBAL_
"GLOBAL_
empty /etc/mailcap.lynx. After that, I could access www.google.com with no
problems.
I don't know if this is a problem with lynx or with google (since all other
sites I have tried work fine in Lynx). Still, if everything isn't needed in
/etc/mailcap for lynx to work it should get it's own custom shorter one (or
maybe filter /etc/mailcap so it doesn't send a huge Accept: header). Thanks.
CVE References
Changed in lynx: | |
assignee: | debzilla → nobody |
Changed in lynx: | |
status: | Unconfirmed → Confirmed |
Changed in lynx: | |
status: | Confirmed → Fix Released |
On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 11:10:11AM +0200, Zakaria wrote:
> Package: lynx
> Version: 2.8.5-1
> Severity: important
>
> Is there something wrong with this version suddenly all my attempt
> to google.com (www, groups, news) result in 400 Bad Request. If I try
> using w3m or links it's fine. I even try using lynx in cygwin and still
> work.
It appears to be due to a recent increase in the size of the mime-types
on Debian. I made changes in lynx 2.8.6dev.4 which address this.
The current version of lynx is 2.8.5
It's available at isc.org/ lynx/lynx2. 8.5/ lynx.isc. org/current/ index.html
ftp://lynx.
2.8.6 Development & patches:
http://
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