lynx-dev Re: -dump etc

[dickey]

> 
> Hello Tom, 
>  
> If you have time, would you take look at this: how is it possible that 
> doing this 
>  
>    lynx -nolist -dump http://www.gospelcom.net/rbc/odb/odb.shtml 
>  
> a number of times (about a second+ in between) download different days'  
> pages (yesterday's and today's)?  I discovered this accidently when  
> this cron job starts displaying previous day's message---even though  
> the page at the site has already been updated.  (Thus viewing the page  
> directly with lynx is different from what the dump above gets.  Another  
> example is http://www.gospelcom.net/ itself.) 

you probably are getting some server's cached copy of the page (but I don't
know why the dump and interactive copies would be different).
  
> I have cookies compiled in, if this could be helpful.  No different  
> when I toggle with -cookies anyhow.  I even include -cfg ... no help. 
>  
> You think the problem is at that site?  Doing wget gets the correct  
> page but it has no the dump mode. 
>  
> Thank you! 
>  
> HenSiong 


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