Re: lynx-dev support for ill-formed URLs

[Walter Ian Kaye]

At 12:51p +0500 04/05/2002, Vlad Harchev didst inscribe upon an 
electronic papyrus:

>  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 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.

I think I'd rather see an error message "Invalid URL syntax." :-)


-Walter



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