Re: lynx-dev Lynx won't interrupt URL guessing process

[Jacob Poon]

On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, Leonid Pauzner wrote:

> > Lynx 2.7.2 (Sun)
> >
> > When I manually entered this URL:
> >
> >   cs.utronto.ca/~gt
> >
> > It gave the following message:
> >
> >   Looking up www.cs.utronto.ca.org
> >
> > When I press 'z' key, Lynx did not interrupt this URL lookup as it
> > normally does when I enter a complete URL.  The screen halted for a minute
> > or two, until I suspended Lynx then came back with following messages:
> >
> >   Getting file://localhost/homes/u2/csc324h/a324poon/cs.utronto.ca/~gt
> >   Can't Access `file://localhost/homes/u/csc324h/a324poon/cs.utronto.ca/~gt'
> 
> the similar problem was reported for lynx 2.8:
> 1998-03-25 (2.8.1dev.4)
> * restore original string in LYUtils.c when user enters a badly formed or
>   nonexistent URL when prompted for Goto/history list (patch by Randall
>   <address@hidden>).  Otherwise Lynx would always attempt to load a
>   local file if the original string omits scheme:// prefix but guessing fails.

Actually I don't have problems on whether or not Lynx restores the partial
URL in the stack.  However, I do have problems on Lynx's inability to stop
the URL transfer initiated by a guessing process by pressing 'z' as Lynx
does on 'exact' URL transfers.

eg:  Lynx can't be stopped after I type 'cs.utronto.ca/~gt' except
        killing the process.
     Lynx stopped quickly if I type 'http://www.cs.utronto.ca/~gt/index.html'.

> >   Alert!: Unable to access document.
> >
> > The INTERRUPT command was improperly disabled if network transmission was
> > started only by typing in an incomplete URL, until Lynx returns with error
> > or finds URL Lynx had guessed.