On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 08:06:56PM -0500, Al Gilman wrote: > At 05:58 AM 2002-04-05 , you wrote: > >On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 12:51:57PM +0500, Vlad Harchev wrote: > >> > >> Just found a bug in lynx - it doesn't understand URLs like this > >> http://www.openeffect.com?1170469/#469 > >> (it tries to lookup the host with name "www.openeffect.com?1170469"). > >> Most popular browsers (NN4.x, mozilla and IE) of course support this form of > >> URLs - they of course treat it as http://www.openeffect.com/?1170469/#469 > On the other hand, the above discussion has to do with the the fact that the > 'authority' part of the URI is here terminated with the '?' introducing the > query part without benefit of an intervening '/'. In this case, per > RFC-2396, Lynx is actually wrong in requiring a '/' before the '?'.
thanks - I didn't see the missing '/'. (though perhaps he meant both chunks) > That says that Lynx should not be looking for a host of address > > "www.openeffect.com?1170469" > > as Vlad reports. Worth checking. -- Thomas E. Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net ; To UNSUBSCRIBE: Send "unsubscribe lynx-dev" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
