Re: lynx-dev Links activate incorrectly

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 10:55:14AM +0100, Ian Collier wrote:
> On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 03:47:52PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > I'm not sure - but looking at the trace, it appears that lynx is seeing
> > EASYNET1 in the "Content-location", and using that information to modify
> > the GET.  This still has the same behavior in 2.8.5dev.7, and comparing
> > against the usual selection of other browsers appears to be a bug in lynx.
> 
> I'm not so sure the fault lies with Lynx; the fact is that the Microsoft IIS
> server is returning an invalid Content-Location.  It says
> 
> Content-Location: http://www.srsb.org.uk/EASYNET1/s/r/s/srsb/index.html
> 
> when what it really means is
> 
> Content-Location: 
> http://webcluster.mcis.easynet.net/EASYNET1/s/r/s/srsb/index.html
> 
> RFC2616:
> 
>    The Content-Location entity-header field MAY be used to supply the
                                              ^^^
It doesn't sound as if there's a requirement for lynx to interpret it, then.
Perhaps the other browsers simply ignore it.

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