Re: lynx-dev Re: resolving weird URL types

[Leonid Pauzner]

13-May-99 13:33 John Bley wrote:
> 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.

Yes, I disable url suffixes guessing in lynx.cfg, perhaps
URL_DOMAIN_SUFFIXES:.
if I remember it right. Otherwise weird guessing run if I try
nonexisting domain.

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