Re: lynx-dev lynx: url form "aol://4344:932.foo.bar.1234.5678/"

[Michael Warner]

On Sat, Aug 15, 1998, brian j. pardy <address@hidden> wrote:

> David Combs wrote:

        [...]

> > Now I know that "aol://<digits>" is an insane (or is it?)
> > url -- but from what I read in the newspaper, AOL houses
> > 50% of the users of the internet.

        [...]

> > QUESTION: what do "the big (bad) two" do with such
> > a url?
> 
> The big bad one with a Linux port tries to parse it as if 'aol:' is a
> domain, and prepends http:// to the beginning of it, then fails miserably.

NS 4.05 on Windows '95 prepends "http://www.megastories.com/";,
and reports File Not Found for:
"http://www.megastories.com/aol://whatever/";.

-- 
Michael Warner 
<address@hidden>