Environment:
$ Lynx -version
Lynx Version 2.8.3rel.1 (23 Apr 2000)
Copyrights held by the University of Kansas, CERN, and other
contributors.
Distributed under the GNU General Public License.
See http://lynx.browser.org/ and the online help for more information.
OpenVMS platform (note this problem has been reported to me with lots
of versions of Lynx back to v2.7.x and I have confirmed it on Unix
platforms too.
Greetings!
I have found that if a URL includes a tilde "~" character in some
specific URLs (I have not tested for all combinations) the download does
not take place. The following error is presented on the display:
Alert!: Unable to access document.
This is easily repeatable.
For example, this FTP protocol example always fails:
$ lynx ftp://www-pi.physics.uiowa.edu/~dyson/gd-1_8_1-vms.zip
Can't Access `ftp://www-pi.physics.uiowa.edu/~dyson/gd-1_8_1-vms.zip'
Alert!: Unable to access document.
I suspect the code assumes the "~username" is invalid syntax and
either drops the "~" or just quits before attempting to get the file
from the remote FTP server. This is a perfectly valid and functional URL
that should be allowable.
Regards,
Rick
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