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Index of Subjects On Fri, 27 Nov 1998, Dave Wile wrote: > Recently the Cobequid Community Network is unable to log into the > microsoft's hotmail.com, it seems that it can enter other sites without a > problem but for some reason it cannot get into this site. What it does is > ask whether you want to P Proceed, G Get the URL, D Download, etc. but > when you try to proceed it goes to the cookie requesting area and it does > not let you get past this you are automatically given the opportunity to > download the file or files but you are not allowed to view the letters you > may have on hotmail. I have not been doing anything on the server in quite > sometime, I am not sure whether any of the others who have root access > have done anything to cause this problem. I was wondering if anyone knew > what was going on with our server and how where we could look to find the > answer to the problem? The answer is that the version of Lynx is too old to support changes that Microsoft made to their hotmail site. It doesn't have anything to do with changes made to your site. Lynx/2.7ac-0.36 libwww-FM/2.14 does not support the changes made. This is the version that (at least at one point in time) was in pre 1.0. The version of Lynx that comes with CSuite 1.0 does support these changes and has no problems viewing that hotmail page. This version of Lynx has additional problems, including being unable to make changes to some forms (several webbased mail programs show this problem), and it allows remote execution of programs on the machine running Lynx (exploit released in March 1998). You can view your version of Lynx in the options menu. Ian ------------------------------------------- Ian White BC Community Networks Association (BCCNA) email: iwhite@victoria.tc.ca phone: 250-727-2489
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