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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New on sources: lynx-2.8.3-1
On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 10:52:22AM -0400, Cary Lewis wrote:
> I have downloaded and installed lynx, but can't get it to work on my w2k
> server machine/
>
> I get the following error:
>
> Looking up lynx.browser.org.
> Making HTTP connection to lynx.browser.org.
> Alert!: Unable to connect to remote host.
>
> lynx: Can't access startfile http://lynx.browser.org/
>
> I can however telnet to port 80 with no problem:
>
> $ telnet lynx.browser.org 80
> Trying 195.40.122.44...
> Connected to lynx.browser.org.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> get a
> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
> <HTML><HEAD>
> <TITLE>400 Bad Request</TITLE>
> </HEAD><BODY>
> <H1>Bad Request</H1>
> Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.<P>
> Invalid URI in request get a<P>
> </BODY></HTML>
> Connection closed by foreign host.
>
> So, why is lynx not working?
Dunno. I have checked that and it only happens for http://lynx.browser.org/.
I have no problems with each other start page I could think of.
And not being able to load one page doesn't mean lynx isn't working...
Corinna
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