LQ search not working in links

jonaskoelker · 02-24-2006, 02:41 PM

Hi. I have a problem--seemingly elinks won't talk nicely to the LQ search facilities.

When a search query succeeds (I define this as me not recieving the message "you can only search every 40 seconds, please wait another n seconds"), all I see is an empty page. When I view source, it's still an empty page.

So far, I've tried versions 0.10.6-1 and 0.10.4-7, both debian builds (and the result is the same). I've included the information that the debian-bug emacs function outputs for elinks, the elinks --version output and a link to my ~/.elinks/elinks.conf file.

Lynx and w3m all seem to handle LQ just fine, so I think this is a links problem. If you can reproduce this, I'd like to know. If you can't, I'd like to know what you're doing differently from me. Of course, if you know why this happens and/or how I can fix this, I'd very much like to know.

Code:

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-1-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_GB.ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages elinks depends on:
ii  debconf                       1.4.70     Debian configuration management sy
ii  libbz2-1.0                    1.0.3-2    high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  libc6                         2.3.5-6    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libexpat1                     1.95.8-3   XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  libgnutls11                   1.0.16-14  GNU TLS library - runtime library
ii  libgpmg1                      1.19.6-21  General Purpose Mouse - shared lib
ii  libidn11                      0.5.18-1   GNU libidn library, implementation
ii  liblua50                      5.0.2-5.1  Main interpreter library for the L
ii  liblualib50                   5.0.2-5.1  Extension library for the Lua 5.0
ii  libperl5.8                    5.8.7-10   Shared Perl library
ii  zlib1g                        1:1.2.3-9  compression library - runtime

elinks recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information

elinks --version

Code:

ELinks 0.10.6 (built on Sep 17 2005 18:12:19)

Features:
Standard, Fastmem, IPv6, gzip, bzip2, Cascading Style Sheets, Protocol (File, FTP, HTTP, NNTP, SMB, URI rewrite, User protocols), 
SSL (GnuTLS), MIME (Option system, Mailcap, Mimetypes files), LED indicators, 
Bookmarks, Cookies, Form History, Global History, Scripting (Lua, Perl)

You can read my elinks.conf at http://jonaskoelker.homeunix.org/~jo...er/elinks.conf

Of course, I searched both google and LQ, and all pages/threads looked unrelated (and the ones I looked at were unrelated, so I extrapolated from those).

Thanks for reading this --Jonas

dive · 02-24-2006, 03:34 PM

I get the same problem with Lynx :/

jeremy · 02-25-2006, 11:05 AM

Can you please enter this into the bug tracker so we can take a look?

--jeremy

jonaskoelker · 02-25-2006, 01:31 PM

You mean bugs.linuxquestions.org? "unable to retrieve <the url>: host not found". No other LQ/google searches come up with anything relevant. Possibly an ISP or PEBKAC error--not sure. I haven't used the bug tracker before, so I don't know, but could someone else enter the info, or would that lose some specific-to-me-'ness? Anyways, I'll try again later, but I'm also open to duct tape/WD-40 work-arounds

jeremy · 02-25-2006, 01:59 PM

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/lqbugs.php is the new integrated bug tracker. Thanks.

--jeremy

jonaskoelker · 02-25-2006, 05:07 PM

Done (assert len(post) > 10).

david_ross · 02-26-2006, 08:53 AM

jonaskoelker, I think the config problem is at your end. LQ searches can take a little bit of time due to the limited hardware available at the moment and you are timing out at 2 minutes and then retrying:

Code:

    ## connection.receive_timeout <num>
    #  Receive timeout (in seconds).
    set connection.receive_timeout = 120

    ## connection.retries <num>
    #  Number of tries to establish a connection.
    #  Zero means try forever.
    set connection.retries = 3

I'd try setting connection.receive_timeout to 600 (a bit over the top but good for testing) and see if that fixes it. You are likely to get the 40 second warning because of the second retries option. I'm not sure why if it really is trying every 120 seconds but my guess is that it may be trying sooner or piplining multiple requests.

david_ross · 02-26-2006, 09:00 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dive

I get the same problem with Lynx :/

What timeout values have you got specified in lynx.cfg?

vharishankar · 02-26-2006, 09:35 AM

I am not even able to log in to LQ using links

Maybe it's a cookie problem with my Links configuration?

jonaskoelker · 02-26-2006, 09:43 AM

david_ross: That didn't work--I tried setting it to 1800 (the largest value) as well.

Harishankar: most likely. Try fiddling around with the configuration. Compare it with mine also, and post a link to your file if all else fails. Btw, is it links or elinks (there is a difference)?

vharishankar · 02-26-2006, 10:18 AM

Plain links. Not elinks. Also I confirmed that I am unable to get cookies on any site with links, so it's definitely a config problem...