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Title: Lynx help
Post by: Gulkings on November 28, 2003, 05:29:27 PM

Well I think I  stumbled into something odd.

When I use Lynx to browse a page end press H for help, I somehow get redirected to a page, containing adult stuff.

I havent been able to figure out why. Lynx goes to the page:

http://gonetwide.com/trill-homelynx/lynx_help/lynx_help_main.html

Anyone have an idea ?? Maybee my system has been compromised ?

I am running SME 6.0

/Gulkings

Title: Re: Lynx help
Post by: Robert on November 28, 2003, 07:38:41 PM

That would be a nasty compromise. Redirecting lynx users to a sex page that doesn't even render in lynx. Tsk. Seriously, the helpfile url does look like a valid url and probably belonged to the lynx maintainer when that url was entered as the default helpfile url in lynx. To get around the problem, you could enter the following line to /etc/lynx.cfg:
HELPFILE:file://localhost/usr/share/doc/lynx-{version}/lynx_help/lynx_help_main.html
Where {version} is whatever it is on your system.

Title: Re: Lynx help
Post by: Michiel on November 28, 2003, 07:52:08 PM

Same thing here. Looks like the original developers gave up that domain name, or their site has been hacked.

Pretty useless given the fact that lynx is a text-based browser :-))

Title: Re: Lynx help
Post by: Robert on November 28, 2003, 07:52:25 PM

I looked in /etc/lynx.cfg.ja, which lists the default buildtime helpfile as http://www.trill-home.com/lynx/lynx_help/lynx_help_main.html. If you try to go there, you'll be redirected to that gonetwide.com url you mentioned. IOW, nothing to worry about.

Title: Re: Lynx help
Post by: Byte on November 29, 2003, 12:42:09 AM

Is this an EGG ;-)