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


From: brian j. pardy
Subject: Re: lynx-dev lynx: url form "aol://4344:932.foo.bar.1234.5678/"
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 21:32:53 -0700

Michael Warner wrote:
> 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/";.

Oh. I figure it probably would do that following a link -- I tried just
typing it in from my start page.

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