Ron wrote:
> Here's one that's driving me nuts! I type the following URL into
>Arachne 1.66:
>
> http://www.supercatjaguarspares.freeserve.co.uk
>
> ...and here's what happens: The 'k' gets removed from '.co.uk' and
>then I get the error screen saying that it can't connect. The first few
>times it did it, I thought that I was going (more) bonkers.
>
> I can search for the name of the company on Google and it comes up
>with that URL. Even if I click on the link that Google shows, I get the
>same answer.
>
> Please, someone, put me out of my misery. What am I doing wrong? And
>how can I get onto the site in question?
I will not put you out of your missery - but the reason (as is farely
easily noticed) is that Arachne doesn't have room for more than 40 chars in
a host-name.
In case you are interested in some (current?) limitations:
Protocol - 9
User - 40
Password - 16
Host - 40
File - 256
So I guess some very lengthy URLs woun't work, but I can't remember seeing
an URL that stretches over 3 rows so I guess it hasn't been reported yet ;-)
In the mean time (or perhaps this wwill stay as it is) you might be able to
access the server in question with:
http://supercatjaguarspares.freeserve.co.uk
But I haven't tried so myself so don't take it as any truth - just an
educated guess.
//Bernie
http://bernie.arachne.cz/ DOS programs, Star Wars ...
