Re: lynx-dev Problem with HTLoadFile?

[Rob Partington]

In message <address@hidden>, 
           Klaus Weide writes:
> 
> Maybe you should describe what you want to do.  I have a suspicion
> that cernrules can already do what you want.  Or, if not, that your
> stuff should hook in at the same level.

The cernrules don't help.

# 1. Applicable URL schemes
<snip>
# Also, a scheme has to be known to Lynx in order to get as far as
# applying rules - you cannot just define your own new foobar: scheme
# and then map it to something here.

Since I've already added the code to make Lynx recognise my protocol,
this isn't a problem (but still seemingly short-sighted).

# 3. Mappings are invisible
# -------------------------
# Changing the URL with "Map" or "Pass" rules will in general not be
# visible to the user, because it happens at a late stage of processing
# a request (similar to directing a request through a proxy).  One
# can think of two kinds of URL for every resource: a "Document URL" as
# the user sees it (on INFO page, history list, status line, etc.), and
# a "physical URL" used for the actual access.  Rules change only the
# physical URL.  This is different from the effect of HTTP redirection.
# Often this is bad, sometimes it may be desirable.

This breaks my protocol horribly. 
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