On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 11:37:55PM +0400, Vlad Harchev wrote:
 
>  Do you have the other 2 bugs I reported in your todo-list?
> 1) http://www.blah.com/?something=1
> 2) something I don't remember, but reported few days before/after the 1st
> bug.. 

I have two from April of this year - probably what you're describing:

>       Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 12:51:57 +0500 (SAMST)
>       From: Vlad Harchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>       Subject: lynx-dev support for ill-formed URLs
>       To: lynx-dev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>       
>        Hi all!
>       
>        Just found a bug in lynx - it doesn't understand URLs like this
>       http://www.openeffect.com?117&0&469/#469
>       (it tries to lookup the host with name "www.openeffect.com?117&0&469").
>        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/?117&0&469/#469
>       
>        I don't really know whether URLs of the former form are valid or not, but it
>       may be nice to support it since other browsers do.
>       
>        Best regards,
>         -Vlad
>       
>       Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 12:02:10 +0500 (SAMST)
>       From: Vlad Harchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>       Subject: lynx-dev handling of URLs of the form http://user:pwd@;host/ (no 
>support
>       +yet?)
>       To: lynx-dev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>       
>        Hi,
>       
>        It seems lynx doesn't support urls of the form http://user:pwd@;host/ - both
>       from commandline and in 'g' prompt - i.e. lynx asks for username and password
>       explicitly. Is this an intentional behaviour (what are the reasons then) or
>       it's just non yet implemented? Anyway, it's a pity that lynx doesn't support
>       them.
>       
>        FYI IE, Mozilla support URLs of this form.
>        links doesn't support locations that require auth in any form at all (but it
>       seems it's trying, using invalid form of request, and the server spews a page
>       stating that brower sent a mailformed request).
>        w3m behaves exactly like lynx - i.e. it asks username/pwd even if they were
>       specified in the url.
>       
>        Best regards,
>         -Vlad


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