Re: issue with lynx -dump

Thomas Dickey <[email protected]> Wed, 2 Jul 2025 04:12:19 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.web.lynx.devel
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Wed, Jul 02, 2025 at 04:35:26AM +0000, Yvan Lengwiler via Lynx-dev wrote:
> Dear Lynx team,
> If I use lite.duckduckgo.com to search for "lynx browser", I do get a list of legitimate links. I can do this repeatedly and I get the same result each time, as it should be.
> 
> If I use lynx -dump https://lite.duckduckgo.com/lite/?q="lynx browser", however, I see the same list of links the first time (OUTPUT 1 below). However, on subsequent runs, I get nothing usable (OUTPUT 2 below).
> 
> Since this problem does not occur if I search inside lynx (without -dump), the problem cannot be with duckduckgo but has to be with lynx -dump.

The server is probably caching your IP-address to keep you from doing
too-frequent searches.  (I see this, and see no cookies being set).

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Thomas E. Dickey <[email protected]>
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