On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 08:36:10 -0500, Mumia W. wrote:

> On 03/18/2008 12:14 AM, jeff pugh wrote:
>> Hello all,
>> I'm pretty new to linux, and I have a Q about where to post my Q. I was
>> using lynx on a gnome terminal with irssi in another tab. In lynx I g.
>> google.com and got a bad request error.I tried the bookmark , same thing.
>> I closed the terminal, restarted it, same thing. I can still get to google
>> with graphical browser, and using lynx in console. I suspect irc or irssi
>> did something, and I'm not sure where to post. I sent email to google
>> security, no response yet, and posted to google search user group. Any
>> advice where to go for help?
>> Thanks.
>> [...]
>
> This advice may or may not help, but I had a similar problem, and my
> solution was to set GLOBAL_MAILCAP to "none" in /etc/lynx.cfg. If that
> doesn't work, try to find out what HTTP headers you are sending to the
> web servers. A webserver on your computer could help in this. Also, some
> security-related web sites will report your HTTP headers to you.
>
> BTW, did you know your post ends with a long string of seemingly random
> characters?

Yeah, every thing below thanks is a copy of the error page I got.

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jeff