Re: lynx-dev Lynx won't interrupt URL guessing process

[Leonid Pauzner]

>      * Subject: Re: lynx-dev Lynx won't interrupt URL guessing process
>      * From: Jacob Poon <address@hidden>

> > > When I manually entered this URL:
> > >
> > >   cs.utronto.ca/~gt
> > >
> > > It gave the following message:
> > >
> > >   Looking up www.cs.utronto.ca.org
                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > >
Yes, lynx won't interrupt URL guessing for some unknown reason,
as a workaround I may recommend to disable any URL_DOMAIN_SUFFIXES guessing
in lynx.cfg:
URL_DOMAIN_SUFFIXES:
instead of
#URL_DOMAIN_SUFFIXES:.com,.edu,.org,.net

>From another side, as a user outside of US (actually from ".ru")
I may propose to fix the code to disable any url_domain_suffixes guessing
if the domain name ends with a two-letters name,
which usually denote the country code.



> > > When I press 'z' key, Lynx did not interrupt this URL lookup as it
> > > normally does when I enter a complete URL.  The screen halted for a minute
> > > or two, until I suspended Lynx then came back with following messages:
> > >
> > >   Getting file://localhost/homes/u2/csc324h/a324poon/cs.utronto.ca/~gt
> > >   Can't Access 
> > > `file://localhost/homes/u/csc324h/a324poon/cs.utronto.ca/~gt
> '
> >
> > the similar problem was reported for lynx 2.8:
> > 1998-03-25 (2.8.1dev.4)
> > * restore original string in LYUtils.c when user enters a badly formed or
> >   nonexistent URL when prompted for Goto/history list (patch by Randall
> >   <address@hidden>).  Otherwise Lynx would always attempt to load a
> >   local file if the original string omits scheme:// prefix but guessing 
> > fails
> .
>
> Actually I don't have problems on whether or not Lynx restores the partial
> URL in the stack.  However, I do have problems on Lynx's inability to stop
> the URL transfer initiated by a guessing process by pressing 'z' as Lynx
> does on 'exact' URL transfers.
>
> eg:  Lynx can't be stopped after I type 'cs.utronto.ca/~gt' except
>         killing the process.
>      Lynx stopped quickly if I type 'http://www.cs.utronto.ca/~gt/index.html'.
>
> > >   Alert!: Unable to access document.
> > >
> > > The INTERRUPT command was improperly disabled if network transmission was
> > > started only by typing in an incomplete URL, until Lynx returns with error
> > > or finds URL Lynx had guessed.
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