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Re: lynx-dev Re: resolving weird URL types


From: John Bley
Subject: Re: lynx-dev Re: resolving weird URL types
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 13:33:02 -0400 (EDT)

On Thu, 13 May 1999, Philip Webb wrote:

> i ran strange behaviour by Lynx faced with non-US URLs yesterday:
> 
>   www.uwe.ac.uk/
>   www.its.leeds.ac.uk/
>   www.ngs.fi/
>   www.tramlink.com.uk/
> 
> when i entered these or similar without  http:// ,
> Lynx started guessing stupidly: `trying http://www.uwe.ac.uk.com/' .
> Lynx seems not to know about country top-level domains:
> can this be corrected?  LP in  .ru  (smile)?

I don't see this behavior (with pre3).  Perhaps your DNS was down when you 
tried this?  Besides, this can be corrected: there are settings in 
lynx.cfg for which prefixes and suffixes to try.

-- 
John Bley - address@hidden
Duke '99 - English/Computer Science
  Since English is a mess, it maps well onto the problem space,
  which is also a mess, which we call reality.     - Larry Wall


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