Re: lynx-dev support for ill-formed URLs

[Vlad Harchev]

On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Thomas Dickey wrote:

 Hi, 

> 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)

 Sorry for late reply - originally I meant only the incorrect parsing of URLs
- that made lynx thinking that hostname includes question mark.

 As for numeric-only anchors - I even didn't think about them when posting
that mail; now it seems to me that lynx should try to support them too as
other popular browers do (unless it's too difficult to implement).

 Best regards,
  -Vlad


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