Dear Axel! Eye am utterly content with your very qualified reply.
Eye totally agree with this being wishlist. And leisurely refactoring a patch for this remaining a long-time project for me to deliver. My bash-ism <<<\\ was supposed to express: the idea of firing up a lynx or links and seeing nothing unless you are acquainted enough with those oldies but goldies to enter a \\ backslash on your teletyper to get the explicit view-source. Personally eye had rather see the default the other way around: present the plain source and fire up the html[2345]|utf-8|7bit-translit|… pdf|odt|tex|troff|ps|... zip|gzip|tar|dpkg|git-patch|… png|jpeg|wav|pbm… mp3|flac|wav… mp4|webm|... interpreter renderings manually with mnemonic key presses or menu picks. Greetings from http://telefonbuch.de/suche/03068919758 2017-02-15 9:07 GMT+01:00 Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>: > Control: tag -1 + upstream confirmed > Control: retitle -1 links -source does not decode transport encoding and > may output binary garbage > Control: severity -1 normal > > Hi, > > Medion Akoya wrote: > > links -head -source woffs.de/pad/ does not stdout the HTTP response as > it should > > That's because links does not have a -head option. That would be > severity "wishlist", not "important". > > But I don't think there is something like a "lynx.browser.org > standard". Most text browsers indeed use Lynx as pattern, but IMHO > they're not bound to mimic its options. > > So I'm more or less ignoring this part. Please discuss this with > upstream directly. In the past, upstream was very open to > improvements (if they come with patches at least :-). > > > links -source woffs.de/pad/ without | zcat and > > I can confirm this part. > > I consider this to be the actually reported bug. Hence retitling the > bug report accordingly. > > > links woffs.de/pad/ misbehaves merely ergonomically without the <<<\\ > > I don't understand this. I don't see any "<<<\\" with that command, > neither on Debian 8 Jessie nor on Debian Sid. > > Regards, Axel > -- > ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ > : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin > `. `' | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 > `- | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE >
