URL lengths
by John Williams
I'm writing a little menu program to generate URL index pages. It's to
make URLs easily available to my Linux machine if there are any problems
with a page/site under NetSurf.
What is the maximum URL length (including POST data) that NetSurf can
handle?
My program is taking text URLs, Ant URL files or Acorn URI files and
parsing them (in the latter case!) to extract the URL string for use in the
menu page, but I need to know the maximum length NetSurf can handle so that
I can provide for all possibilities that it may throw my way.
Or I could just choose an arbitrary large maximum - but what would a
sensible limit be before complaining? 500 characters /seems/ reasonable,
but is it actually?
An genuine real-life number would be better!
John
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5 years, 6 months
Name from NetSurf has underscores for percents
by John Rickman
Is this a bug?
If you open this link in NetSurf :-
https://hu.123rf.com/photo_34178186_soil-grooves-farming-earth-soil-groov...
The webpage shows a JPEG of a ploughed field.
Then if you menu>Object>Object>Save... and drag/drop the jpeg onto
an application eg Artworks, ChangeFSI etc the load fails because the
file name is not correct.
(quoting Bernard Boase)-
NetSurf has output the file name as
34178186-talaj-hornyok-mez_C5_91gazdas_C3_A1gi-earth-talaj-b
ar_C3_A1zd_C3_A1k-f_C3_B6l_C3_B6tt-mez_C5_91-n_C3_B6v_C3_A9n
y-_C3_BCltet_C3_A9si-a-vid_C3_A9ken-m/jpg
but the underscores should be percent signs to code for letters with
Hungarian diacritics in Unicode:
34178186-talaj-hornyok-mez_C5%91gazdas%C3%A1gi-earth-talaj-b
ar%C3%A1zd%C3%A1k-f%C3%B6l%C3%B6tt-mez%C5%91-n%C3%B6v%C3%A9n
y-%C3%BCltet%C3%A9si-a-vid%C3%A9ken-m/jpg
whereupon it works into the apps.
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John Rickman
5 years, 6 months
list just quiet, or am I still cut off?
by Jim Nagel
The last item delivered to me from this list was Dave Higton's, dated
Nov07 at 20:56.
I understood that the firewall block of Netsurf traffic (a "port
flooed") that had somehow come into being at my mail server had been
cleared on Nov07 at 17:31.
So have there been 0 postings to this list since Nov07 20:56, or has
some new blockage come into being?
I shall now see whether I receive my own post.
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Jim Nagel www.archivemag.co.uk
5 years, 6 months
i am cut off again
by Jim Nagel
Thanks to those who replied by email to my earlier posting today. I
haven't received any of the Netsurf items they received in the past
few days, nor my own.
It does indeed appear that my Netsurf feed is blocked again. Thought
it was cured last week. Will take it up again with my mail host.
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Jim Nagel www.archivemag.co.uk
5 years, 6 months
problem with Mailman or is it just me?
by Jim Nagel
I havent received any messages from the Netsurf list since Oct26 --
other than two odd ones which DID arrive (my own on Nov02, Geoffrey
Baxendale on Nov03).
Others have told me that messages DO arrive to them, including another
one or two that I myself posted.
I have tried fetching my mail using both Netfetch 5 (which has
introduced some form of DMARC) and the older Netfetch 3.66; no joy.
https://listmaster.pepperfish.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/netsurf-users-...
I went to the Netsurf-users Info Page and subscribed using a different
address (a valid one), but it responds: "You must supply a valid email
address."
Then further down that page, I tried UNsubscribing. Instructions
here say "If you leave the field blank, you will be prompted for your
email address." So I left it blank, clicked Unsubscribe, and it
replies: "Error: No address given."
According to the bottom of that page, the list is running on Mailman
version 2.1.5. Is there a glitch, or is it just me?
Could someone else try unsubscribing or subscribing, please, and
report? (Please copy any reply via email to me, else I won't see!)
And could there be any connection with my not receiving messages from
the list though I am able to post -- or is it again just me?
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Jim Nagel www.archivemag.co.uk
5 years, 7 months
Pane srolling and searching
by Richard Torrens (lists)
http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F207018
is an odd page - it has 6 lists within panes.
I was searching for "Anglian" within the window and there were several
occurrences. But as these are within the panes it is extremely difficult
to know where they are!
Also pane scrolling had a great tendency to misbehave. sometimes the
mouse-wheel would scroll a pane, sometimes not. And sometimes the wrong
pane would scroll!
so I think it may be a useful test window.
3.8 (Dev CI #4246)
ARMX6
5.23 (29-Jun-16)
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Richard Torrens.
http://www.Torrens.org for genealogy, natural history, wild food, walks, cats
and more!
5 years, 7 months
test2
by Jim Nagel
I'm getting reports by private email that they received my earlier
"test" message in the Netsurf list.
But here, I still have received nothing beyond the two messages I
listed in that earlier "test" posting.
Peculiar. It's not that I am receiving NO messages from the list,
because those two odd ones DID arrive after Oct26.
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Jim Nagel www.archivemag.co.uk
5 years, 7 months
NetSurf 3.7
by Dave Higton
Did I miss an announcement of the release of 3.7, or is it still not
released?
Dave
5 years, 7 months
test
by Jim Nagel
Sorry, just a test.
Oct26 was the last message I received from this list.
People elsewhere reported they received postings after that.
Today I received two.
Will this one now come through to me?
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Jim Nagel www.archivemag.co.uk
5 years, 7 months
Crash on Titanium
by Geoffrey Baxendale
Hi,
I am in the process of building a Titanium based system.
Unfortunately Netsurf loads to the icon bar but as soon as you click it
the Netsurf window appears and produces an error. (segmentation fault)
4233 version on RiscOS 5.23
I have tried older versions with the same result.
Any ideas.
TTFN
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Geoff. Baxendale, Darwen, Lancashire.
Using Acorn StrongARM Kinetic RiscPC.
Oxymoron of the day: "Advanced BASIC"
5 years, 7 months
