Re: lynx-dev support for ill-formed URLs

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 08:06:56PM -0500, Al Gilman wrote:
> At 05:58 AM 2002-04-05 , you wrote:
> >On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 12:51:57PM +0500, Vlad Harchev wrote:
> >> 
> >>  Just found a bug in lynx - it doesn't understand URLs like this
> >> http://www.openeffect.com?1170469/#469
> >> (it tries to lookup the host with name "www.openeffect.com?1170469").
> >>  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/?1170469/#469
 
> On the other hand, the above discussion has to do with the the fact that the
> 'authority' part of the URI is here terminated with the '?' introducing the
> query part without benefit of an intervening '/'.  In this case, per
> RFC-2396, Lynx is actually wrong in requiring a '/' before the '?'.

thanks - I didn't see the missing '/'.  (though perhaps he meant both chunks)
 
> That says that Lynx should not be looking for a host of address
> 
> "www.openeffect.com?1170469"
> 
> as Vlad reports.  Worth checking.

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