Re: lynx-dev PATCH for lynx2.8.4dev.21

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 07:21:53AM -0600, address@hidden wrote:
> In a recent note, Thomas Dickey said:
> 
> > Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 04:28:09 -0400
> > 
> > On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 08:56:34PM -0700, Doug Kaufman wrote:
> > > confuses me. I thought that directories in ftp didn't have the
> > > terminal slash in the URL.
> > 
> > I'm not sure either (I thought that the trailing slash ensured that it
> > would match the directory rather than the indexing information).
> > 
> RFC 1738 says that for an FTP URL the browser should do a CWD for each
> pathname component.  Does this mean it should finally do a CWD with a
> null argument, leaving the dialogue in the target user ID's home
> directory.

perhaps it is interpreted as "/."

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Thomas E. Dickey <address@hidden>
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