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Re: lynx-dev Re: resolving weird URL types
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Philip Webb |
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Re: lynx-dev Re: resolving weird URL types |
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Thu, 13 May 1999 14:45:18 -0400 (EDT) |
990513 Leonid Pauzner wrote:
> 13-May-99 13:33 John Bley wrote:
>> On Thu, 13 May 1999, Philip Webb wrote:
>>> i ran into strange behaviour by Lynx faced with non-US URLs yesterday:
>>> www.uwe.ac.uk/ etc
>>> when i entered these or similar without http:// ,
>>> Lynx started guessing stupidly: `trying http://www.uwe.ac.uk.com/' .
>>> Lynx seems not to know about country top-level domains:
>> I don't see this behavior (with pre3).
>> Perhaps your DNS was down when you tried this?
no: i was testing a long list of URLs: .com etc were ok.
>> this can be corrected: there are settings in lynx.cfg
>> for which prefixes and suffixes to try.
no: i have a few of those set.
Lynx should NEVER add .com to .uk or any other country top-domain.
it's obviously an error from the early days,
when most/all URLs were .com .org etc
& Lynx was a freenet browser for US colleges.
> Yes, I disable url suffixes guessing in lynx.cfg,
> perhaps URL_DOMAIN_SUFFIXES:. if I remember it right.
> Otherwise weird guessing run if I try nonexisting domain.
that's the sledgehammer, certainly,
but again, Lynx should KNOW .uk .ca .fi .ru are codes for countries,
which must always be last: it could try inserting eg .co.uk .
Lynx needs to be given the list of international country codes:
i can provide the list, if anyone wants to do the programming.
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- lynx-dev Re: resolving weird URL types (patch), Leonid Pauzner, 1999/05/13
- Re: lynx-dev Re: resolving weird URL types, Philip Webb, 1999/05/13
- Re: lynx-dev Re: resolving weird URL types, John Bley, 1999/05/13
- Re: lynx-dev Re: resolving weird URL types, Leonid Pauzner, 1999/05/13
- Re: lynx-dev Re: resolving weird URL types,
Philip Webb <=
- Re: lynx-dev Re: resolving weird URL types, pg, 1999/05/13
- Re: lynx-dev Re: resolving weird URL types, mattack, 1999/05/13
- Re: lynx-dev Re: resolving weird URL types, Philip Webb, 1999/05/13
- Re: lynx-dev Re: resolving weird URL types, pg, 1999/05/13
- Re: lynx-dev Re: resolving weird URL types, mattack, 1999/05/13
- Re: lynx-dev Re: resolving weird URL types, Philip Webb, 1999/05/13
- Re: lynx-dev Re: resolving weird URL types, pg, 1999/05/13
- Re: lynx-dev Re: resolving weird URL types, John Bley, 1999/05/14
- Re: lynx-dev Re: resolving weird URL types, pg, 1999/05/14
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- Re: lynx-dev Re: resolving weird URL types, Greg Marr, 1999/05/14