[plt-scheme] continuation url & lynx?

This was a bug. I just fixed it and put it in SVN.

On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 6:49 PM, YC <yinso.chen at gmail.com> wrote:
> I did a quick tcpdump, and it appears that lynx was able to send the request
> back (so not appearing to be lynx's problem), but plt-web-server just send
> back acks without content.  After the first ack, it paused for about 30
> seconds before sending back another ack (unlike GET).
>
> All of the "GET" works with lynx - unfortunately I don't know any wild urls
> that uses ";"...
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> yc
>
> On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 5:15 PM, Jay McCarthy <jay.mccarthy at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Can you do a tcpdump or connection sniffing to see what it does? Can
>> you try to go to a page that uses ";" in the URL? I know that I've
>> used lynx before with the web-server, so I can't imagine what the
>> problem would be, but that would be a place to start.
>>
>> Jay
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 6:10 PM, YC <yinso.chen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi -
>> >
>> > I am running into a baffling behavior and wonders if others have seen it
>> > before.
>> >
>> > When I try to access the examples/add.ss from lynx (the text-mode
>> > browser) -
>> > lynx has difficulty submitting the form.  As far as I can tell, the
>> > server
>> > isn't being hit when I press the submit button.  The page, of course,
>> > works
>> > fine in Firefox.
>> >
>> > I can serve non-continuation-based pages without issues with lynx, so
>> > this
>> > leads me to believe there is a possible issue using continuation-url and
>> > lynx.
>> >
>> > Has anyone else seen something similar?  Below are my repro steps...
>> >
>> > 1 - start plt web server (mine is on port 8080)
>> > 2 - lynx http://localhost:8080/servlets/examples/add.ss
>> > 3 - type in a number and press enter
>> >
>> > Lynx will hang for a while (message: HTTP Request sent; wait for
>> > response)
>> > and then report a network error.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > yc
>> >
>> >
>> >
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>>
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>



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Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University
http://jay.teammccarthy.org

"The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93