Re: lynx-dev Problem with HTLoadFile?

[Rob Partington]

In message <address@hidden>, 
           Klaus Weide writes:
> On Tue, 27 Jul 1999 address@hidden wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Ok, I'm passing a URL to HTLoadFile in a custom protocol handler
> > and it's going via FTP instead of HTTP for some reason.
> 
> After reading this again - you don't seem to realize that HTLoadFile
> is for loading *"file:"* URLs (and "ftp:" URLs, as described in
> my other message).  Why would you expect it do load something via
> the HTTP protocol?  It has nothing to do with that.

Fair enough.  Mea culpa. 

> If you want access via HTTP, you need (directly or indirectly) HTLoadHTTP.
> 
> Don't confuse any of these with HTLoad, which is generic (and PRIVATE
> to HTAccess.c).

Unfortunately, that's what I need.  Now tell me there's no way of doing 
a generic "load_this_url" call?

> Maybe you should describe what you want to do.  I have a suspicion
> that cernrules can already do what you want.  Or, if not, that your
> stuff should hook in at the same level.

The cernrules might help, actually.  I'll go and investigate those.
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