LYNX-DEV v2.6FM update

[Foteos Macrides]

01-01-97 -- Happy New Year!
* More partial/relative HREF resolving enhancements.  Everything is now
  handled as recommended in Larry Masinter's -03 revision of Roy Fielding's
  -02 URL ID, except file and ftp URLs (which Lynx handles as described
  in the online 'h'elp ).  Note, though, that Lynx handles known schemes
  on a scheme-by-scheme basis, and for schemes that involve substitutions
  of "/" for a NULL/zero-length path, Lynx inserts the "/" at the resolving
  stage, so those slashes are present where the Fielding test suite doesn't
  indicate them, but the actual requests sent to servers (or bad URL message
  if it's a scheme that requires a host field and doesn't have a default)
  will be the same.  Note, also, that Lynx sends only the  path<?searchpart>
  ("absolute path") in it's direct http requests and indicates the host of
  the URL in the Host:  header, i.e., sends the absolute URL only to proxies.
  Note, as well, that Lynx treats a zero-length attribute value for an HREF,
  SRC, etc. as a reference to the currently displayed document, but still
  uses the base (which might not be the current document's address) as the
  default for FORMs without an ACTION specified, or ISINDEX tags without
  an HREF or ACTION specified. - FM
* Expanded REL/REV handling.  All of the REL values in the (expired) Maloney
  and Quin draft-ietf-relrev-00.txt ID which make sense for banner links in
  Lynx have been added.  For REL="Help" without an HREF in the LINK, Lynx
  uses its helpfile URL.  For REL="Home" without an HREF in the LINK, it
  uses the configuration startfile or WWW_HOME URL (i.e., not a startfile
  specified on the command line), or the command line homepage, if it was
  specified. - FM
* Added handling of fragments in conjunction with URL expansion guessing for
  startfile, homepage and 'g'oto strings.  Note that any '#' that is not a
  fragment delimiter should be hex escaped (%23), and ideally all reserved
  or unsafe characters will be hex escaped in the user-entered string, though
  you can get away with not using the hex codes for most others, depending on
  their positions in the string.  Also note that on VMS if you include the
  version for local files it must precede the fragment (e.g., foo.html;3#frag)
  as for parameters. - FM


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