"clemens fischer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William December Starr): > >> lynx -base -source http://www.cuttingsarchive.org.uk/telos/ > > this page opens up saying that my browser doesn't support web > standards. the server is micro$oft IIS ...
Right... the question is, what happens when you 'click' on the first link in the page? More presicely, what base href does Lynx use to generate the complete URL of the file that that link should lead to? If it uses: http://www.cuttingsarchive.org.uk/EASYNET1/r/a/r.anderson/telos/index.htm then you'll get a 404 (well, under Lynx 2.8.4rel.1 you will, anyway), whereas if it uses: http://www.cuttingsarchive.org.uk/telos/index.htm then you'll go to the appropriate page. The difference lies in what base href Lynx generates for itself when the home page doesn't explicitly specify one in its header, and different versions of Lynx (2.7.1 vs. 2.8.4rel.1) generate different ones. (The quick-and-easy way to find out what the base href is is, of course, to press the = key and see what the URL is of the "Link that you have currently selected".) Note: the Telos webmaster has told me that he'll be putting an explicit "BASE HREF=..." line in the header the next time he updates the page, so experimenting with that particular URL may, in the near future, no longer produce the odd results. -- William December Starr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ; To UNSUBSCRIBE: Send "unsubscribe lynx-dev" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
