Re: lynx-dev lynx HEAD requests

[Larry W. Virden]

I ran into an unexpected behavior with head requests yesterday as well.

I typed:


$ lynx -head www.cas.org
The '-head' switch is for http HEAD requests and cannot be used for
'www.cas.org'.

and couldn't figure out what the error message meant.  Only today did I
figure out that what the msg really means is

Lynx requires the string "http://"; to be on the front of any sites used
in -head requests.


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