Re: emacs/w3m cannot retrieve url

Sorry it took so long to test.

That didn't work for me. So it must be something related to current vs
the gtk version.


John McCue <jmclists@jmcunx.com> writes:

> Hi
>
> I can get to https://lobste.rs/ on OpenBSD 7.5 without any
> issues.
>
> But I installed emacs-29.4-gtk2 instead of the gtk3 package.
> The gtk3 package has issues on my machine.
>
>
> On Sat, Aug 31, 2024 at 02:02:06PM -0400, Jon Fineman wrote:
>>In emacs when I try and browse https://lobste.rs via M-x
>>w3m-browse-url I get the below error in emacs/w3m:
>>
>>Location: https://lobste.rs/
>>Cannot retrieve URL: https://lobste.rs
>>/usr/local/bin/w3m exits with the code 11
>>Something seems to be wrong with URL or this system.
>>
>>If I try https://news.ycombinator.com it works. Several other urls
>>fail like google duckduckgo.
>>
>>If I try it via the shell command line using w3m it works fine.
>>
>>The same tests work on alpine, so this is why I am asking here first
>>rather than emacs/w3m.
>>
>>OpenBSD 7.6 GENERIC.MP#299 amd64
>>emacs GNU Emacs 29.4
>>emacs w3m: w3m-20240712.248
>>OpenBSD w3m: w3m version w3m/0.5.3+git20230718, options lang=en,m17n,image,color,ansi-color,mouse,menu,cookie,ssl,ssl-verify,external-uri-loader,w3mmailer,nntp,gopher,ipv6,alarm,mark
>>
>>
>>Alpine 6.6.42-0-lts #1-Alpine SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 2024-07-25 10:49:31 x86_64 Linux
>>emacs GNU Emacs 29.4
>>Alpine w3m: w3m version w3m/0.5.3+git20230718, options lang=en,m17n,image,color,ansi-color,mouse,menu,cookie,ssl,ssl-verify,external-uri-loader,gopher,ipv6,alarm,mark
>>
>>In this area my init.el files are the same.
>>
>>Any thoughts on how to go about finding out what is wrong?
>>
>>Thanks.
>>
>>Jon
>>
>
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