lynx-dev Re: file:/// vs. file://localhost/ and Links and all

[Al Gilman]

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Links is broken, here.  If you want the same jumps to be used in Links and Lynx
on the same host, spell out the hostname in the file: URL and maybe Links will
be happy.  At least then you will be within the realm of correct URLs.  

The relative form

/home/pervalidus/.links/jumps.html

is a relative URL, is illegal in this context (the configuration file of MIME
type text/plain) which does not establish a BASE to contextualize the relative
reference.

So, it's OK to modify Lynx to accept the file:/// form but not to accept the
"/home/pervalidus/ [etc.]" form.

And Links should be corrected to accept <file://\>file://localhost/ as a synonym
for file:/// and for
<file://\\whatever.the.local.host.is\>file://whatever.the.local.host.is/ .

file:/// is defined as short for <file://\>file://localhost/ see RFC-2396 for
details.

If you support the short form you should support the longer one.

Al



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