Re: lynx-dev Handling non html links

[Thomas E. Dickey]

On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, David Arno wrote:

> > > >I occasionally download pdf files with lynx, and don't recall
> > > >problems with that.  Do you have a test url in mind?
> > >
> > > My money's on spaces in a filename, and an unencoded reference.
> >
> > that was why I asked, so we can focus on something specific.
> Great cheers Walter and Thomas. It was indeed due to spaces. I couldn't 
> provide a
> URL as requested as its an intranet website and so inaccessible. But I 
> checked the
> files I was trying, then rechecked with filenames with no spaces and it 
> worked just
> fine.
>
> Sorry to waste your time, I should have spotted that myself. Thanks
> for the help anyway,

It's not exactly a waste of time.  I added some logic in 2.8.4 (which iirc
didn't entirely work properly) that (in the current development version)
does allow for blanks in a filename.  So it's possible that you could make
it work with 2.8.5dev.8, for instance.  (Someone's sure to point out that
it's not standard...)

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