On Sat, Feb 08, 2014 at 05:33:33AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > X-Debbugs-Cc: emacs-...@namazu.org > Package: lynx-cur > Version: 2.8.8pre4-1 > File: /usr/bin/lynx > > $ ls > er.html zaokeng.html > $ cat er.html > <form action="zaokeng.html"><p><input type="submit"></p></form> > clicking gets e.g., in emacs-w3m > Cannot retrieve URL: file:///.../zaokeng.html? (http status: 200) > Similar with lynx. > > w3m, Midori, chromium, firefox all know to try zaokeng.html not (or in > addition to) "zaokeng.html?" for local files. > > emacs-w3m and lynx fail.
actually it's not a failure: reading RFC 1866 and RFC 2616, there's no
wording which would support this interpretation. Lacking any standard
to cite, I'm reluctant to add a feature. There are two aspects:
a) how to interpret a form for a file: uri
b) whether to omit the "?" which is explicitly cited in the RFCs.
fwiw, Safari (6.1.1) and Chrome (32.0.1700.107) don't
follow the interpretation suggested by this report.
Internet Explorer 11 does - seems that this is just another case of
Firefox copying IE's behavior without regard to the RFCs.
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