Re: Google search question.

["Hwaen Ch'uqi" <hwaenchuqi@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Greetings Lukas,

Thank you so much for investigating this issue. I am glad to know that
I was not the only one affected. At the moment, I haven't found the
`C-c C-k' remedy to be too annoying, but if/when that moment will
come, I will surely implement your latter solution.

Thank you again.

Hwaen Ch'uqi


On 5/8/15, Lukas Loehrer <listaddr1@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I build a version of w3m that claims to support HTTP/1.1.
> Unfortunately, this hat the side effect of making w3m very slow, even
> without emacs-w3m. The Google homepage would not load at all. However,
> it made the problem with dzone.com go away. It is too slow to be
> useful. I did not further investigate the slowness.
>
> Anyway, the problem with the Google results page seems to be caused by the
> following meta-tag in the returned HTML:
>
> <meta content="0;url=/search?q=..." http-equiv="refresh">
>
> I do knot know why this is suddenly present. It will cause the page to
> be refreshed immediately. Apparently, Google somehow forgot to test their
> site
> with emacs-w3m ;).
>
> Both w3m and emacs-w3m support this meta-refresh-feature. I first
> tried to put the following into /etc/w3m/config, but it did not help:
>
> meta_refresh 0
>
> Then I set the config variable w3m-use-refresh to nil which made the
> problem go away. Of course, this means that the feature is disable
> globally wich might cause trouble on other sites.
>
> Best regards, Lukas
>
> Pierre Lorenzon writes ("Re: Google search question."):
>> From: "Lukas Loehrer" <listaddr1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Subject: Re: Google search question.
>> Date: Fri, 8 May 2015 16:29:49 +0200
>>
>> > I noticed this too but did not have time to investigate. It is indeed
>> > very annoying. Pressing "C-c C-k" stops the constant refreshing of the
>>
>>   OK. It works it is better than noting !
>>
>>
>>
>> > page. One thing that is special about w3m is that it still claims to
>> > use HTTP 1.0. This causes problems with other sites too, e.g.
>> > dzone.com. I am pretty sure this is not an emacspeak problem. I will
>>
>>   I am sure too it is not an emacspeak problem since I
>>   encounter the problem without emacspeak.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> > try to build a modified version of w3m that claims to support HTTP
>> > 1.1.
>>
>>   It might be good in fact !
>>
>>   Pierre
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> >
>> > Best regards
>> >
>> > Lukas
>> >
>> > Hwaen Ch'uqi writes ("Google search question."):
>> >> Dear All,
>> >>
>> >> Greetings. I have a question which may not be appropriate for this
>> >> list, but I am not certain where else to ask. If anyone has any
>> >> solutions or suggestions of where better to ask, I would greatly
>> >> appreciate it. I am a heavy emacspeak user, though I know/understand
>> >> very little about its internals. I use emacs-w3m as my browser of
>> >> choice, unless javascript issues force me to use firefox via orca. A
>> >> couple of days ago, google searches through emacs-w3m began yielding
>> >> strange results. It seems as if much redirection is taking place.
>> >> Emacspeak's output is a stream of interrupted URL's. After several
>> >> minutes, the redirections stop, and the final page begins something
>> >> like this:
>> >>
>> >> Cannot retrieve URL:
>> >> http://ipv4.google.com/sorry/IndexRedirect?continue=http://www.google.com/SEARCH_STRING
>> >>
>> >> 503 Service Unavailable
>> >>
>> >> This is followed by a call to identify a CAPTCHA, an impossibility
>> >> either to ascertain via emacspeak or to submit via emacs-w3m. However,
>> >> if I will conduct a google search in firefox using orca, a results
>> >> page immediately appears. Does anyone have any idea what might be
>> >> going on? I am using ubuntu-14.04, emacs 24.3.1, emacspeak-38 as set
>> >> up through the voxin package, and emacs-w3m 1.4.527.
>> >>
>> >> Thank you so much.
>> >>
>> >> Hwaen Ch'uqi
>> >>
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