Re: lynx-dev Re: resolving weird URL types

[John Bley]

On Thu, 13 May 1999 address@hidden wrote:

> And, please, make no assumptions that the qualifier following
> a "www" is a "middle-ranking domain".  A little probing finds
> me a site in which the www is immediately followed by the
> top-level domain name.

To add another voice to the list of concerns about lynx's current url 
parsing: I read http://news.com on a regular basis, but because the 
mid-level domain is "news", lynx parses "news.com" as though I were
accessing, say, "news.duke.edu" and tries to start an nntp connection.

Perhaps one of the goals for the 2.8.3dev series might be to take a 
survey of how other browsers handle url guessing and incorporate/steal 
the "best" heuristics for lynx.

-- 
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