LYNX-DEV v2.6FM update

[Foteos Macrides]

01-09-97
* Mods to resolve the HREFs for LINKs with REV="made" or REV="owner"
  versus the base (a many, many year old bug finally caught 8-). - FM 
* Added HTAlert messages about BASE HREF vaules, Location header values,
  and Refresh URL values that were not received as absolute URLs.  We
  still resolve them versus the RequestURI, since that's invariably
  what is intended, and thus the optimum "error recovery" strategy. - FM
* Added handling of cc= and body= fields in ?searchpart strings of mailto
  URLs.  They are described in draft-hoffman-mailto-url-00.txt recently
  posted to the URI-WG list.  This draft ignores the objections which have
  been filed about changing the semantics of mailto and breaking clients
  which are fully conformant with the mailto specs in RFC1738, instead of
  using a new scheme name (e.g., smtp:) for URLs with mail headers, and it
  extends the ill-advised use of '&' as puctuation in URLs instead of
  honoring the previous IETF effort to seek it's replacement by ';' as the
  URL name=value separator and, in effect, treating them as parameters
  without need to worry about confusions with entities when the URLs are
  attribute values in text/html.  However, the chairman of the URI-WG is
  a co-author of this draft, so, sigh...  As far as this Lynx code is
  concerned, the mods are more "error recovery" to cope with the sad things
  which have afflicted the Web during the past 2-3 years, and use of a
  ?searchpart in mailto URLs is still DISadvised.  Lynx uses only subject=,
  cc=, and body= fields from a ?searchpart, using it's own "safe" rules for
  other mail headers, and ignoring ones other than those three in the
  ?searchpart as "unsafe".  The cc= values in a ?searchpart are added to
  the primary address as a comma-separated list for the mail agent, and
  Lynx's own Cc: is that entered, optionally, by the user.  Any body= field
  is passed to the external editor, if one has been defined, for review and
  possible modification.  Otherwise, it is scrolled for review.  The mailing
  can be cancelled at any time (via Ctrl-G), and via a statusline prompt
  after everything has been reviewed, if the user judges the body and/or
  addresses to be unsafe or inappropriate. - FM
* Moved information and prompt strings in LYMail.c to installer-modifiable
  symbols in LYMessages_en.h. - FM


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