* bug#26148: 25.1; Results from eww DuckDuckGo searches cannot be loaded
@ 2017-03-17 20:50 stp
2017-06-02 6:02 ` Tim Landscheidt
0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: stp @ 2017-03-17 20:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 26148
Found in Emacs 25.1.1 but looks to be the same on master. Using emacs
-Q, run M-x eww to do a search and then click on one of the search
results - the following error page will be displayed:
'Oops, there was an error. Please try again.
If it persists, please email ops@duckduckgo.com'
This appears to be due to DDG trying to use a redirect to load the
result - this can be disabled (see https://duckduckgo.com/params for
details) by adding "kd=-1" to the query string in the URL in which case
the results can be loaded as expected. Turning off redirects is less
secure, but as we're using HTTPS anyway this shouldn't be a problem (see
https://duckduckgo.com/privacy#s5).
Should be able to fix with:
diff --git a/lisp/net/eww.el b/lisp/net/eww.el
index c9f4e61..0066f54 100644
--- a/lisp/net/eww.el
+++ b/lisp/net/eww.el
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ eww-header-line-format
:group 'eww
:type 'string)
-(defcustom eww-search-prefix "https://duckduckgo.com/html/?q="
+(defcustom eww-search-prefix "https://duckduckgo.com/html/?kd=-1&q="
"Prefix URL to search engine."
:version "24.4"
:group 'eww
Cheers!
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2017-03-17 20:50 bug#26148: 25.1; Results from eww DuckDuckGo searches cannot be loaded stp
@ 2017-06-02 6:02 ` Tim Landscheidt
2017-06-02 12:00 ` Stephen Perry
0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Tim Landscheidt @ 2017-06-02 6:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: stp; +Cc: 26148
I could confirm this bug some time ago, but duckduckgo.com
seems to have fixed something on their part in the mean time
and it now works with eww-search-prefix set to the default
"https://duckduckgo.com/html/?q=". Does the bug still occur
for you?
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* bug#26148: 25.1; Results from eww DuckDuckGo searches cannot be loaded
2017-06-02 6:02 ` Tim Landscheidt
@ 2017-06-02 12:00 ` Stephen Perry
2017-06-02 22:47 ` npostavs
0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Stephen Perry @ 2017-06-02 12:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Tim Landscheidt; +Cc: 26148
> On 2 Jun 2017, at 07:02, Tim Landscheidt <tim@tim-landscheidt.de> wrote:
>
> I could confirm this bug some time ago, but duckduckgo.com
> seems to have fixed something on their part in the mean time
> and it now works with eww-search-prefix set to the default
> "https://duckduckgo.com/html/?q=". Does the bug still occur
> for you?
You’re right, I can’t see the problem anymore. I guess something has been changed by DDG.
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* bug#26148: 25.1; Results from eww DuckDuckGo searches cannot be loaded
2017-06-02 12:00 ` Stephen Perry
@ 2017-06-02 22:47 ` npostavs
0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: npostavs @ 2017-06-02 22:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Stephen Perry; +Cc: 26148, Tim Landscheidt
# not an Emacs bug
tags 26148 notabug
close 26148
quit
Stephen Perry <stp@ekioh.com> writes:
>> On 2 Jun 2017, at 07:02, Tim Landscheidt <tim@tim-landscheidt.de> wrote:
>>
>> I could confirm this bug some time ago, but duckduckgo.com
>> seems to have fixed something on their part in the mean time
>> and it now works with eww-search-prefix set to the default
>> "https://duckduckgo.com/html/?q=". Does the bug still occur
>> for you?
>
> You’re right, I can’t see the problem anymore. I guess something has been changed by DDG.
Closing, as this seems to have been a bug on the remote end.
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