[vox-tech] Fwd: lynx and google

Rick Moen rick at linuxmafia.com
Fri Oct 26 16:14:59 PDT 2007


Quoting Carl Boettiger <cboettig at gmail.com>:

> I'd like to be able to take advantage of text-based web browsers like 
> lynx more often.  I have a few challenges.  First, I can't seem to 
> access google.  Launching lynx, hitting g, typing www.google.com gives me:
> 
> Google Error 400 Bad Request
> Your client has issued a malformed or illegal request.

Not an outcome seen here.  Doing the exact same sequence of events, I
immediately get:

www.google.com cookie: P=ID=ce3584dffdc1e5b5:TM=119  Allow? (Y/N/Always/neVer)

You might want to try using some of lynx's -trace options.


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