lynx/googl error

[weedeater64]

Hello all,
I've fiddled with linux a little since about 1998, starting peanut. That didn't last long. Then a couple of years ago with suse and ubuntu, better but still no sound, so back to xp. Now about a month ago xp died and I don't know what went with the install disk. So I did some reading and got myself a debian netinst iso, and I'm very pleased that I even have sound, very painless install. I've got a problem with lynx or GNOME Terminal 2.14.2 or google though. First I want to get my terminology right. OK when I'm using GNOME Terminal 2.14.2 or konsole that is a terminal, right? And when I ctrl alt f1 that is the console, ? Am I saying this right?

Anyway, I was using (Lynx Version 2.8.5rel.1) on a GNOME Terminal 2.14.2, under Linux version 2.6.18-6-686 (Debian 2.6.18.dfsg.1-18etch1). I'm using a dsl connection with at&t. I havn't had a problem getting to google.com before.but now, when I 'g'oto "google.com" I get the error message below, I get the same thing trying to use the bookmark. I can still use my graphical browser and get to google.com. And If I ctrl alt f1 , console? I can use lynx from there and get to google.com this it the only web page that does this and it wasn't a problem before. I really need my google, and I'm trying to learn to use less graphical stuff . Any help will be much welcomed. The error I got is below.
Thanks Jeff Pugh.



400 Bad Request (p1 of 4)

Google
Error

Bad Request

Your client has issued a malformed or illegal request.
Please see Google's Terms of Service posted at
http://www.google.com/terms_of_service.html

We have encountered an error while processing your request. If you would like to
provide us with information about this error, please report your problem. In your
email, please send us the entire code displayed below. Please also send us any
information you may know about how you are performing your Google searches-- for
example, "I'm using the Opera browser on Linux to do searches from home. My Internet
access is through a dial-up account I have with the FooCorp ISP." or "I'm using the
Konqueror browser on Linux to search from my job at myFoo.com. My machine's IP address
is 10.20.30.40, but all of myFoo's web traffic goes through some kind of proxy server
whose IP address is 10.11.12.13." (If you don't know any information like this, that's
OK. But this kind of information can help us track down problems, so please tell us
what you can.)

We will use all this information to diagnose the problem, and we'll hopefully have you
back up and searching with Google again quickly!

Please note that although we read all the email we receive, we are not always able to
send a personal response to each and every email. So don't despair if you don't hear
back from us!
400 Bad Request (p2 of 4)
Also note that if you do not send us the entire code below, we will not be able to help
you.

Best wishes,
The Google Team


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Question

[jledhead]

you could try
#apt-get install elinks

slightly more featured text based browser

not sure what you problem could be. at a commmand line if you type
#lynx Google
do you get that error every time? are you behind a proxy?

try elinks, it works very similar

[yancek]

Tried lynx on my suse 9.2 (google.com) and got the same error msg you did. Was able to connect with other sites using lynx. Used w3m and elinks and was able to connect to google. Used lynx on Slackware 11.0 and connected to google. ???

[weedeater64]

OK I'm giving this w3m a whirl, so far so good. I guess I could have tried it to begin with since it came with
debian. I was surpresed when the editor opened. I've never posted using a text browser before. Pretty cool. I think I
can get used to this. Thanks for the input folks. I'm sure you'll be hearing from me again.

[Agnot]

This is a known problem in lynx 2.8.5-2, which was in sarge and still, etch, by my repository. lynx-cur, which is 2.8.7dev, works without any development issues for me. Either 2.8.6 or 2.8.5-4 will also fix it if you can find and install them.

I think it was a discrepancy between lynx and google in handling put and get methods.

Bug#404957: lynx: google reports malformed browser request

[rcgreen]

Cause: Some Linux distributions ship with a large /etc/mailcap or ~/.mailcap file that Lynx is using to send a huge Accept: header and google doesn’t like it.

Fix: In /etc/lynx.cfg, edit

"GLOBAL_MAILCAP:/etc/mailcap" to "GLOBAL_MAILCAP:/dev/null"
or
"PERSONAL_MAILCAP:~/.mailcap" to "PERSONAL_MAILCAP:/dev/null"

as appropriate (depending on which mailcap file is causing the grief).

Not So FAQs » lynx

I got the same error, but this fixed it.