elinks reports `Bad HTTP response` in Mac OS

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I just installed elinks via brew install elinks in my Macbook. When I open http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html in elinks, it reports Bad HTTP response. Then I tried the same web address with elinks in Debian 8, it works fine.

What's wrong with elinks in OSX?

I used curl (or wget) to download the file and then opened the local file in elinks. — Sukima, Jun 18 '15 at 12:13
It is known issue. See http://minimul.com/elinks-browser-not-working-using-brew-install.html for the workaround. — user6804999, Sep 07 '16 at 13:36

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 07 '16 at 18:34

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This is apparently a bug in stable elinks version 0.11.

Install development version of elinks (0.12pre6 at the moment), it works fine:

brew install --devel elinks

answered Sep 07 '16 at 18:34

mvp

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This is now `brew install --HEAD elinks` in the latest version of Homebrew. – Cameron Flint Oct 26 '20 at 03:40

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 18 '18 at 16:45

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The same problem happened to me. But it seems to work after I reinstalled elinks.

If you already installed the normal version, just do

brew remove elinks

and

brew install --devel elinks

This should fix the problem.

answered May 18 '18 at 16:45

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elinks reports `Bad HTTP response` in Mac OS

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