[pkg-lynx-maint] Bug#893907: lynx: The subdomain name 'news' freezes Lynx
Pelle Hjek
hjek at mail.com
Fri Mar 23 17:24:03 UTC 2018
Package: lynx
Version: 2.8.9dev16-3
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
When I use Lynx to read a web page, it freezes when the web page starts
with the subdomain 'news.' For example, on the terminal when I type in
this:
lynx news.ycombinator.com
Then Lynx freezes while displaying this message in the status bar:
Making NNTP connection to news.ycombinator.com
Lynx handles https://news.ycombinator.com just fine, but when https://
is missing, Lynx just assumes that I'm looking for something one Usenet.
Same problem with news.google.com, news.yahoo.com, etc.
I think it would be more reasonable if Lynx assumed HTTP unless told
otherwise, or perhaps had a time out in case NNTP lookup failed.
Freezing indefinitely is not the best option in that case.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 4.15.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages lynx depends on:
ii libbsd0 0.8.7-1
ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.6-8.1
ii libc6 2.27-1
ii libgnutls30 3.5.18-1
ii libidn11 1.33-2.1
ii libncursesw5 6.1-1
ii libtinfo5 6.1-1
ii lynx-common 2.8.9dev16-3
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-5
Versions of packages lynx recommends:
ii mime-support 3.60
lynx suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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