Re: LYNX-DEV: why cannot 'back-up' from addr?

[David Combs]

> From address@hidden Mon Feb 24 13:51:46 1997
> From: Mike Brown <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: LYNX-DEV: why cannot 'back-up' from addr?
> 
> > RE: www.news.com/Rumormill/Archives/rum2_12_97.html
> > 
> > Why can I Go to that location, but not to anything
> > I back-up to (via deleting rightmost characters in that addr)?
> 
> That is most likely a problem with the server, not Lynx.  You'd
> get the same behavior from any browser.
> 
> It cannot be assumed that http://www.news.com/Rumormill/Archives/
> is going to return a document.  Perhaps if you go in from the
> other direction (connect to www.news.com, and navigate from there)
> you'll find that they have an archive index (or whatever you're
> looking for at the next level up) at a slightly different URL.
> 

Nice answer.  Perhaps should be added to the manual or tricks & techniques.

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