[Netsurf-develop] Accessing Localhost with ADSL down
by Richard Porter
I've noticed that if the ADSL line goes down NetSurf can't even access
a local web site served by WebJames (http://localhost/). The request
just times out. As soon as the link comes back up it's OK. This isn't
a problem with Oregano. I think it was OK when I specified the initial
page as a file. Could this be a "feature" in NetSurf or is it a
configuration problem?
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16 years, 4 months
[Netsurf-develop] Web server downtime
by Rob Kendrick
Just another quick reminder that the server that handles
netsurf-browser.org and the email addresses within the same domain will
be down for maintenance and a data centre move from tomorrow afternoon
to Monday morning. Any email sent to netsurf-brower.org addresses will
be dealt with by our secondary mail servers and not be lost, but they
won't be delivered until Monday.
B.
16 years, 5 months
[Netsurf-develop] Crash on Google "full-size" images
by John
Using version of 20th April (& 15th April) on Iyonix + OS 5.13 :
Selecting Google > Images > Search for e.g. "hat" > Click on first image >
Click on "See full-size image" at top of page.
Netsurf error appears "Netsurf has detected a serious error and must
quit..."
This is repeatable, but not on all images.
I tried to send in a bug report but only managed to get "failed creating
formpost data"
John
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16 years, 5 months
[Netsurf-develop] A crash
by Jess Hampshire
Netsurf just crashed, I saved a log. What is the correct procedure in
this case? (I am dubious about just creating a new bug report, because
it may already be reported, I can't tell, since from my perspective it
just crashed.) The same link loaded fine on a second attempt.
I have included a few lines of the log in case it is enough to help.
top:
desktop/netsurf.c netsurf_init 70: version 'Test Build (20 Apr 2007
19:15)'
desktop/netsurf.c netsurf_init 77: NetSurf on <RISC OS>, node
<Vigor10>, release <5.11>, version <1.0>, machine <armv5l>
bottom:
confirm_overwrite:1
url_path:NetSurf:URL
url_save:<Choices$Write>.WWW.NetSurf.URL
hotlist_path:NetSurf:Hotlist
hotlist_save:<Choices$Write>.WWW.NetSurf.Hotlist
recent_path:NetSurf:Recent
recent_save:<Choices$Write>.WWW.NetSurf.Recent
theme_path:NetSurf:Themes
theme_save:<Choices$Write>.WWW.NetSurf.Themes
thumbnail_iconise:1
Fatal signal received: Segmentation fault
Stack backtrace:
Running thread 0x2e26e4
( 31eea4) pc: 15e4c0 lr: 252520 sp: 31eea8
__write_backtrace()
( 31eed4) pc: 252378 lr: 8868 sp: 31eed8 ^ro_gui_signal()
( 31eefc) pc: 8858 lr: 1ce59c sp: 31ef00
__unixlib_exec_sig()
( 31efa0) pc: 1cdf50 lr: 2ca630 sp: 31efa4
__unixlib_raise_signal()
( 31efb0) pc: 2ca540 lr: 74c5c sp: 31dc68 __h_cback()
( 31dc74) pc: 239bfc lr: 74c5c sp: 31dc78
^browser_window_set_status()
( 31dde0) pc: 74240 lr: 6e3d8 sp: 31dde4
^browser_window_mouse_action_html()
( 31de04) pc: 6e384 lr: 155338 sp: 31de08
browser_window_mouse_click()
( 31de24) pc: 15529c lr: 20ba40 sp: 31de28
^ro_gui_window_click()
( 31de90) pc: 20ba04 lr: 252838 sp: 31de94
ro_gui_wimp_event_mouse_click()
( 31dea0) pc: 252788 lr: 2526d4 sp: 31dea4
^ro_gui_handle_event()
( 31dfb8) pc: 2525a4 lr: 1bd180 sp: 31dfbc gui_poll()
( 31dfc8) pc: 1bd168 lr: 13a6dc sp: 31dfcc ^netsurf_poll()
( 31dfe0) pc: 13a694 lr: b7504 sp: 31dfe4 main()
( 31dff0) pc: b74e4 lr: aee8 sp: 31dff4 _main()
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16 years, 5 months
[Netsurf-develop] How to handle lying file extensions?
by Simon Smith
I occasionally encounter files of one filetype, named as if they were
another. For example,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/picture_gallery/07/asia_pac_insid...
is a .gif with a jpg extension, as are pictures 1-9 in that series. I have
also seen Windows BMPs filetyped as PNG, I think it was. I've complained
about the BBC one; although perhaps they would take more notice if I sent
them a .cmd file filetyped as a .jpg? I've never experimented with how
Windows behaves in those circumstances, but I know from the odd behaviour I
seen with .exes renamed as .bats and the like that its filetype handling is
. . . well, about as well implemented as the rest of the OS, frankly. :-/
Netsurf refuses to display these images, but also makes it difficult to save
them so that they can be retyped appropriately. Not a bug in Netsurf,
really, but are there any plans afoot to work around web sites that
misbehave in this particular way? I'm not sure I actually would want it to
just silently determine the correct filetype and then display it, but it
would be nice if one could at least save the file locally to examine it.
I'd put in a feature request, but I'm not really sure what the preferred way
to handle this situation would be.
Simon Smith
--
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contestant is shown ten Perl programs - five that have been written normally
and five that have been deliberately obfuscated. In order to win, you just
have to decide which is which.
16 years, 5 months
[Netsurf-develop] Meta refresh tags
by John Williams
I connect my RISC OS network via an IPCop box¹ using dial-up.
The IPCop pages as displayed by NetSurf have continued to be better and
better displayed as layout improvements have been made.
Recently - and it may have coincided with recent work improving the
handling and 'accommodation' of duff meta tags - the IPCop 'base' page,
which has a meta refresh tag of the form:
<meta http-equiv='refresh' content='30;'>
seems to try and reload a page called
https://ipcop:445/cgi-bin/;
instead of
https://ipcop:445/cgi-bin/index.cgi
(isn't this drag&drop of URLs from the bar wonderful!).
I was wondering if the recent 'liberalisation' regarding metatags could
have broken the refresh handling.
If you have a page you visit with a refresh tag, could you try it and
report back before I raise a bug report?
John
¹ written up at: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jrwmail/IPCop/
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16 years, 5 months
[Netsurf-develop] Behaviour with lack of content type
by David J. Ruck
What is the correct behaviour when no content type is returned by a
site for a page? Should the browser default to text or HTML?
streetmap.co.uk returns a correct type of text/html for its title
page, but entering a search results in a page with no content type
which NetSurf renders as text. The same if a map page URL is dragged
in from another browser.
*curl -I http://www.streetmap.co.uk/
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
Cache-Control: max-age=1800
Expires: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 17:23:16 GMT
Content-Location: http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newdefaulte2.htm
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 16:53:16 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Last-Modified: Mon, 02 Apr 2007 12:42:25 GMT
ETag: "12c7ca5d2475c71:162a"
Content-Length: 17852
*curl -I http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newsearch.srf?
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 19:32:26 GMT
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
Content-Length: 18568
Of course you'll have spotted its Microsoft shite.
Cheers
---Dave
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16 years, 5 months
[Netsurf-develop] 01-Apr-2007 and earlier builds ignore INPUT TYPE="hidden"?
by Andrew Hodgkinson
On the ROOL site, new tickets in the bug tracker are entered using a
hidden field carrying the author name. Unfortunately, attempting to add a
bug with NetSurf causes an error from the Web server. The server debug
output seems to indicate that the hidden field data was not sent at all,
or perhaps got sent in a malformed way that caused it to be discarded.
Until recently the page had a few errors that caused it to fail
validation - it was using ">" instead of " />" or an explicit closing
tag, to close an element definition in an XHTML document. The problem
remains despite fixing the page errors.
If you are logged in to the site you can attempt to create a ticket using
the following address:
https://www.riscosopen.org/tracker/tickets/new
Is there a known problem with hidden input fields in Netsurf? Or is there
something else wrong with the page that annoys the browser, which the W3C
validator doesn't pick up
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TTFN, Andrew Hodgkinson
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16 years, 5 months
