Re: LYNX-DEV problem w/ files with "~"/"%7E" in their names

[Klaus Weide]

On Sat, 4 Oct 1997, Eduardo Ochs wrote:

>   Does anyone have a patch to make lynx more compatible with wget, or
> with some other program that makes local copies of directories in
> remote machines? The problem is that if I have a file with a name like
> 
>   /wget/http/www.dnai.com/~jfox/color4th.html
> 
> and I try to access it, lynx just says "Alert!: Unable to access document."
> So I recompiled lynx modifying LYSanctify() (in LYGetFile.c) to make
> it return its argument (the name of an URL) unchanged, and now it is
> able to access that kind of file, but not files with names like
> 
>   /wget/http/www.dnai.com/%7Ejfox/cm-misc.html

Of course in URL syntax that would be 

 file://localhost/wget/http/www.dnai.com/%257Ejfox/cm-misc.html ...

> ...that the unpatched version can't read!
> 
> What's happenning? Where is it documented? What would be necessary to
> make lynx first try to access the local copy of a file, then the
> remote version?

Try the development code at <URL:http://sol.slcc.edu/lynx/current/>,
it probably already does what you want.
(LYSanctify() isn't used any more.)

  Klaus

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