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Re: lynx-dev support for ill-formed URLs


From: Thomas Dickey
Subject: Re: lynx-dev support for ill-formed URLs
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 05:58:32 -0500
User-agent: Mutt/1.2.5i

On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 12:51:57PM +0500, Vlad Harchev wrote:
>  Hi all!
> 
>  Just found a bug in lynx - it doesn't understand URLs like this
> http://www.openeffect.com?117&0&469/#469
> (it tries to lookup the host with name "www.openeffect.com?117&0&469").
>  Most popular browsers (NN4.x, mozilla and IE) of course support this form of
> URLs - they of course treat it as http://www.openeffect.com/?117&0&469/#469

I seem to recall (will check later, unless someone else does) that numeric
references aren't legal.  The context at that point was the references in
lynx's user guide.
 
>  I don't really know whether URLs of the former form are valid or not, but it
> may be nice to support it since other browsers do.
> 
>  Best regards,
>   -Vlad
> 
> 
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