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Re: lynx-dev URL Case Sensitivity in Crawler


From: Thomas Dickey
Subject: Re: lynx-dev URL Case Sensitivity in Crawler
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 13:06:31 -0500
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On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 11:01:17AM -0700, address@hidden wrote:
> In a recent note, Thomas Dickey said:
> 
> > Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 12:55:04 -0500
> > > > 
> > > > I understand that a pathname on a host is case-sensitive (usually).
> > > > But I'd thought hostnames were not.  Anyone know the applicable RFC?
> > > > 
> > > I believe that's what he's reporting/requesting.  I haven't used
> > 
> > at first glance, it sounded like that, but the "should be rejected" is
> > confusing me...
> > 
> > > crawl.  I assume that if he selects a filter which is supposed
> > > to prune away http://foo-bar/ he rightly sees a problem if Lynx
> > > traverses http://Foo-Bar/
> > 
> Would it be better if he used the word "pruned" instead of "rejected"?

could be (it doesn't sound like we want to change anything w/o more info)

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey <address@hidden>
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