Re: lynx and brotly

On Sun, 19 Oct 2025 11:42:55 -0500
"\"Douglas R. Reno\"" ([email protected] via blfs-support
Mailing List) <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 10/18/25 7:49 PM, Bruce Dubbs ([email protected] via
> blfs-support Mailing List) wrote:
> > On 10/18/25 6:27 PM, "Rob E" ([email protected] via blfs-support
> > Mailing List) wrote:  
> >> You may want to look at 
> >> https://lynx.invisible-island.net/current/CHANGES.html
> >> first.  If I'm not mistaken they hacked the brotli changes into
> >> the gzip support.  Meaning if Lynx has gzip compiled in it behaves
> >> as though brotli is
> >> also present. This causes issues with sites that default to
> >> brotli, such as
> >> the Lynx home page. I suggest either reverting back to Lynx-2.9.1
> >> or making
> >> brotli a dependency.  
> >
> > We've already added brotli as an optional dependency for lynx.
> >
> >   -- Bruce
> >  
> I think we need to do more here. The Lynx website itself doesn't load
> in Lynx without Brotli installed, which is the default homepage set
> when you just run "lynx".
> 
> We should probably follow the advice of upstream and put it as either 
> recommended or required. I'd like to point out that Thomas Dickey,
> the maintainer of Lynx, said in 
> https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/lynx-dev/2025-10/msg00034.html 
> that "It needs the brotli package installed (both at package build
> time and runtime)." in reference to this exact problem that cropped
> up a few days ago upstream.
> 
> - Doug
> 

The lynx website shouldn't force brotli, or anything else.

I always thought that browsers and servers would negotiate and agree on
a way to communicate supported at both ends and then carry on.

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