Re: lynx online help page blocked on lynx

esqeleto wrote:

> Hello, im trying to access lynx.invisible-island.net and im getting a
> sucuri website firewall error that reads:
>
> Block reason: Access from your Country was disabled by the administrator.
> im not using a vpn, my country is Argentina.

Alejandro Lieber replied:

> I also live in Argentina, and have the same problem with
> lynx.invisible-island.net since some years ago.

I tried from my system and Lynx wanted to download the page as an
arbitrary binary blob!  So I did, and the result was the HTML of the
Lynx front page (in plain text/html format).

`lynx -head` shows that it is Brotli-encoded, and somehow my Lynx binary
knows how to decode-after-download a .br file, but *not* how to display it
inline!  (Binary is 2.9.2 from Debian 'sid')

Meanwhile, loading the page on my desktop browser, I see the emblem
'Viewable With Any Browser' -- ironic...

`lynx -trace` shows that Lynx sent 'Accept-Encoding: gzip, compress,
bzip2' -- 'Sucuri/Cloudproxy' seems wrong to send Brotli to a client
which clearly said 'no Brotli'!

And presumably unblock Argentina while at it?  If they were DDoSing or
something, it must have been years ago and they're surely low on the
threat meter at the moment...

But meanwhile, `strace lynx` (and `ldd lynx`) clearly shows that it is
linked with Brotli support (libbrotlidec.so.1, libbrotlicommon.so.1) --
so really it ought to be able to show the Lynx front page successfully?

In sum:

- invisible-island.net blocking .ar
- 'Content-Encoding: br' for 'Accept-Encoding: gzip, compress, bzip2'
- Lynx receiving and uncompressing it, but insisting it's a download

... are all problems of one sort or another.  [ in fact, problems 'ar',
'br', and 'cr' (compression response :) ]

>Bela<