On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Thomas Dickey wrote: Hi,
> 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) Sorry for late reply - originally I meant only the incorrect parsing of URLs - that made lynx thinking that hostname includes question mark. As for numeric-only anchors - I even didn't think about them when posting that mail; now it seems to me that lynx should try to support them too as other popular browers do (unless it's too difficult to implement). Best regards, -Vlad ; To UNSUBSCRIBE: Send "unsubscribe lynx-dev" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
