Bug 310495

Summary:	www-client/elinks doesn't work with zlib-1.2.4
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Marcin Kowalski <yoshi3>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Michal Januszewski (RETIRED) <spock>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	ssuominen
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Marcin Kowalski 2010-03-21 09:30:30 UTC

symptoms are exactly as described here : http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/18064?string=lat

in a nutshell : "If you go to a website with gzip compression, elinks will not display the site."

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install zlib-1.2.4
2. go to lkml.org
3. try to view any mailing list message

Actual Results:  
elinks will display a blank page

Expected Results:  
elinks should show the page

i'll provide what's needed.

Comment 1 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-03-21 11:50:08 UTC

I can reproduce this. The Arch Linux bug says "0.12pre5" is working... perhaps a version of that to ~arch?

Comment 2 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-03-21 11:57:17 UTC

Possible related bugs,

http://bugzilla.elinks.cz/show_bug.cgi?id=1068 :

"Fixed already in 0.12.GIT and 0.13.GIT. Won't be fixed fo 0.11.GIT, because 0.11 uses different code for decompression. It requires too much work."

http://bugzilla.elinks.cz/show_bug.cgi?id=1017 :

"To work around this bug, ELinks 0.12pre5 disables protocol.http.compression by
default.  The bug itself has not been fixed."

Comment 3 Michal Januszewski (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-04-04 11:56:43 UTC

Added 0.12pre5 to CVS.  Thanks for reporting the problem and for providing the links to the elinks bugs :)