Re: emacs-w3m question

[Bob Newell <bobnewell@bobnewell.net>]

>>>> When I go to some sites for example
>>>> <https://duckduckgo.com/> using w3m the page returned
>>>> appears to be binary. Most sites work. Stand alone w3m works
>>>> for duckduckgo.com.

My initial suspicions about the cause were wrong, but I've
traced further and developed a patch that works for me. I'm
getting a bit more testing done and if it pans out I'll submit
it to the emacs-w3m maintainers.

To summarize: sites which use "brotli" compression don't work;
others do. There is no brotli handler in w3m.el, so I added
one, and that did the trick.

Why does w3m command line render fine? Because none of the
"dump" options are used. w3m.el uses dump options.

Why is everything fine for some users but not others?  While
I'm not sure, on most of my systems I have the latest w3m
(command line) version, and I have trouble.  On another system
I have a release that's a few years older, and that one
works. This would explain why what used to work for me on Arch
quit working one day.

-- 
Bob Newell
Honolulu, Hawai`i

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