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lynx-dev LYNX: "//localhost//" doesn't work on netcom.com???


From: David Combs
Subject: lynx-dev LYNX: "//localhost//" doesn't work on netcom.com???
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 07:29:40 -0800 (PST)

A really stupid question:

On my OWN computer (sparcstation 5, solaris 2.51) "//localhost//foo/bar/t.html"
works fine (within bookmarks-file line).

Not so on netcom.

Here are two lines trying it (on netcom):

<LI><a href="http://www.slate.com/TOC/current/contents.asp";>Slate - Table of 
Contents</a>
     38 <LI><a href="http://www.slate.com/cover/current/cover.asp";>Slate 
(magazine)</a>
     39 <LI><a href="http://localhost//u5/dkcombs/t5.html";>t5.html (for MAIL 
that is HTML -- edit off top and bottom!)</a>
     40 <LI><a href="http://localhost//~/t5.html";>t5.html (for MAIL that is 
HTML -- edit off top and bottom!)</a>
     41 <li><a href="http://www.yahoo.com/";>#######   SEARCH-ENGINES::   
#######</a>
     42 <LI><a 
href="http://www.hotbot.com/IU08SQa47D289A023B5A552A16C01DC05BBD7B23";>HotBot 
search engine</a>
     43 <li><a href="http://www.yahoo.com/";>Yahoo!</a>
     44 <L



And this proves that the file exists:


^Z
Stopped
{netcom4:316} head5 /u5/dkcombs/t5.html
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Law News Network Newswire</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY TEXT="#000000" LINK="#333399" VLINK="#333366" ALINK="#CC0000" 
BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF">
{netcom4:317} 


QUESTION: what does "localhost" REALLY mean?
  . on a stand-alone computer, like mine.
  . on a network, like netcom's

(By the way, it displays fine when put onto
the command line itself, eg:
    ~wcheung/bin/lynxtest -useragent="Mozilla/4.02" -vikeys -cache=60 t5.html
)

Actually, it says "unable to connect to remote host".

Any ideas?  THANKS!

David

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