LYNX-DEV ~ -> $HOME in local URLs

[Eduardo Ochs]

Hi,

There's a very annoying bug in lynx 2.6 and 2.7: "~"s anywhere in
local URLs get substituted by $HOME, so that, for example,

  lynx /snarf/http/www.math.princeton.edu/~nelson/

tries to read

  file://localhost/snarf/http/www.math.princeton.edu/home/rootnelson

instead, thus making lots of files in my "local mirror" inaccessible.
I tried to run lynx with the -trace option and almost discovered where
the error is: I got

LYGetFile: getting file://localhost/snarf/http/www.math.princeton.edu/~nelson/

HTParse: aName:file://localhost/snarf/http/www.math.princeton.edu/home/rootnel
son   relatedName:

but I couldn't fix it.

Any hints?

  Thanks in advance,


        Eduardo Ochs
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