In the user's guide discussion of lynx trying alternative URLs, the
example of
Lynx also will attempt to create a complete URL if you include
adequate portions of it in the startfile argument. For example:
1234.6789.1234.6789.1234.6789.1234.6789.1234.6789.1234.6789.1234.6789.1234.6789
wfbr will be expanded to:
http://www.wfbr.edu/ and:
ftp.more.net/pub will be expanded to:
ftp://ftp.more.net/pub
See [45]URL Schemes Supported by Lynx for more detailed information.
is used.
However, the latest lynx ends up guessing many different extensions and then
generates an error msg saying that it is a badly formed address that fails.
I suspect we should choose some other example that is 'safe' regardless
of what extension matches...
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