lynx-dev internal links

[Philip Webb]

980903 Nelson Henry Eric wrote (for some reason): 
> :Content-Type:text/html
> Mime-Version: 1.0
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
> X-URL: file://localhost/home/kyoin/nelsonhe/blahblah.html
> X-Mailer: Lynx, Version 2.8.1dev.24
> X-Personal_name: __Henry
> From: Philip Webb <address@hidden>
> Subject: file://localhost/home/run/blahblah.html

he also wrote in HTML format (for some reason): 
TD> Klaus' "internal links" ... 
PW> oh save us! not another potential dispute about standards & rules! 
> All sinners need saving!  Some Scripture for you:

Lynx is not a religion.
lynx-dev is not a church.
past developers are not prophets or saints.

> Fote on internal links:
><a href="http://www.flora.org/lynx-dev/html/month0298/msg00096.html";>Feb98</a>
PW> since neither FM nor KW are around anymore, surely we should delete them. 
> Crass.

FM concluded (msg 96):  The INTERNAL_LINK stuff in the devel code treats
>URL-References derived from a fragment with no URL as always having
>a no-cache override (whether or not it points to a position in the document
>that is presently "current"), and ones that did have a URL component
>as not acquiring the override, even if they did fully resolve to the document
>that is presently "current".  As someone who did spend many years
>developing Lynx, I find it very sad that its users will be stuck
>with that stuff in its next release (but getting rid of it, now,
>from the devel code is a non-trivial task). [ he omitted the 1st  )  ]

it seems plain from this that FM wanted the `internal stuff' REMOVED,
but believed it somewhat difficult to accomplish.

i can't see what all the fuss is about.
the point is quite trivial: how to treat  HREF="" , a rare occurrence.
there is no suggestion in FM's excessively impassioned exposition
that there is any security problem involved. 

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