lynx-dev unanswered queries (9)

[Philip Webb]

981022 Mark Burton wrote:

no-one volunteered an explanation for your rather technical question.
you can now get 2-8-1 from  www.slcc.edu/lynx/release/ ,
tho' i don't know of anything which would affect cacheing there.
does anyone else have any suggestions?

> I'm trying to use lynx 2.8 on a Linux system
> that runs a squid proxy cache & most of the time
> doesn't have a connection to the Internet & therefore can't resolve names.
> If I specify an URL on the command line:  lynx http://www.xemacs.org/
> I get a response like this from squid:
> 
>    While trying to retrieve the URL: /www.xemacs.org/
> 
>    The following error was encountered:
>      * Invalid URL 
> 
>    Some aspect of the requested URL is incorrect. Possible problems:
>      * Missing or incorrect access protocol (should be `http://'' etc)
>      * Missing hostname
>      * Illegal double-escape in the URL-Path
>      * Illegal character in hostname; underscores are not allowed
> 
> I know the cache contains the page I want
> because I can retrieve its headers like this:
> 
> address@hidden: HEAD http://www.xemacs.org/
> 200 OK
> Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 01:29:52 GMT
> Accept-Ranges: bytes
> Age: 184620
> Server: Apache/1.3.1 (Unix) PHP/3.0.3
> Content-Length: 4611
> Content-Type: text/html
> ETag: "1a824-1203-36136dc9"
> Last-Modified: Thu, 01 Oct 1998 11:55:53 GMT
> Client-Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 14:39:14 GMT
> Client-Peer: 192.168.1.1:3128
> Proxy-Connection: close
> X-Cache: HIT from tower.ordern.com
> 
> Does this mean lynx can only retrieve pages from hosts
> whose addresses it can resolve? 
> why has it removed the http:/ from the start of the URL?
> If anyone can help, please mail me directly as I don't subscribe.
> (I already receive far too much email)
 
so does lynx-dev sometimes ...

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