Re: LYNX-DEV bug

[Foteos Macrides]

address@hidden (Louis LaRiccia) wrote:
>Cannot access peoplesoft.com    any suggestions?

        In the Lynx online 'h'elp, which you should consider yourself as
having the responsibility to read and understand if you accept the favor
of making Lynx available to you, it says:

[...]
   When entering a URL on the command line to be used as the startfile,
   or at the prompt for a 'g'oto entry, a partial host field can be used
   and the scheme field can be omitted if the scheme and fully qualified
   domain name can be constructed internally by using the
   URL_DOMAIN_PREFIXES and URL_DOMAIN_SUFFIXES definitions in the Lynx
   configuration file. See the explanation of those definitions and their
   use in your lynx.cfg. For example, [...]
   
        In lynx.cfg, to which the 'h'elp refers you, it says:

[...]
# URL_DOMAIN_PREFIXES and URL_DOMAIN_SUFFIXES are strings which will be
# prepended (together with a scheme://) and appended to the first element
# of command line or 'g'oto arguments which are not complete URLs and
# cannot be opened as a local file (file://localhost/string).  Both
# can be comma-separated lists.  Each prefix must end with a dot, each
# suffix must begin with a dot, and either may contain other dots (e.g.,
# .com.jp).  The default lists are defined in userdefs.h and can be
# changed here.  Each prefix will be used with each suffix, in order,
# until a valid Internet host is created, based on a successful DNS
# lookup (e.g., foo will be tested as www.foo.com and then www.foo.edu
# etc.).  The first element can include a :port and/or /path which will
# be restored with the expanded host (e.g., wfbr:8002/dir/lynx will
# become http://www.wfbr.edu:8002/dir/lynx).  The prefixes will not be
# used if the first element ends in a dot (or has a dot before the
# :port or /path), and similarly the suffixes will not be used if the
# the first element begins with a dot [...]

        www.peoplesoft.com
            proplesoft
        www.peoplesoft.
           .peoplesoft.com
           ^
all are succeessful in generating http://www.peoplesoft.com/ as the
absolute URL.  But "peoplesoft.com" will fail, for reasons that you
could have, and should have, figured out by accepting the responsibility
to read and become knowledgeable about how Lynx works.

        It is important to report bugs to the lynx-dev list so that
they can be corrected.  It is also important to correct the "bug" of
using Lynx without adequate personal initiative to read and understand
how it works.

                                Fote

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