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Re: lynx-dev lynx: url form "aol://4344:932.foo.bar.1234.5678/"
From: |
Michael Warner |
Subject: |
Re: lynx-dev lynx: url form "aol://4344:932.foo.bar.1234.5678/" |
Date: |
Sat, 15 Aug 1998 20:17:52 -0700 |
On Sat, Aug 15, 1998, brian j. pardy <address@hidden> wrote:
> David Combs wrote:
[...]
> > Now I know that "aol://<digits>" is an insane (or is it?)
> > url -- but from what I read in the newspaper, AOL houses
> > 50% of the users of the internet.
[...]
> > QUESTION: what do "the big (bad) two" do with such
> > a url?
>
> The big bad one with a Linux port tries to parse it as if 'aol:' is a
> domain, and prepends http:// to the beginning of it, then fails miserably.
NS 4.05 on Windows '95 prepends "http://www.megastories.com/",
and reports File Not Found for:
"http://www.megastories.com/aol://whatever/".
--
Michael Warner
<address@hidden>