Re: lynx-dev Lynx and Dotster

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Ed Greenberg wrote:

> No. That is the problem. All the other temporary pages have a URL to
> proceed. The final one is a dead end.

there was a bug report (haven't gotten to it) that essentially said the
refresh information in the http headers wasn't being processed by lynx.
If that's the case, you should be able to see that in the trace file
(lynx -trace, or using control/T).

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> </edg>
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> --On Thursday, October 23, 2003 8:37 PM -0400 Thomas Dickey
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> > On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 05:04:10PM -0700, Ed Greenberg wrote:
> >> Has anyone ever successfully registered a domain on Dotster using Lynx?
> >>
> >> Dotster has a habit of issuing a temporary page with a refresh in order
> >> to  let the user know what is happening. This works fine in Lynx all the
> >> way  through the process until the credit card page. The final submit
> >> returns  the temporary page but never receives a final page, and the
> >> registration  does not go through.
> >
> > does the temporary page have a url to proceed?
> >
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