Re: [Lynx-dev] Would Lynx try to download iFrames, External Javascript etc

[Stef Caunter]

On Thu, 7 Jun 2007, Rashmi Rubdi wrote:

> lynx -dump -force_html -nolist -hiddenlinks=ignore first.html
>
> however, I just wanted to verify that it is true that Lynx does not (by 
> itself)
> try to download web page resources that are external to that web page such as

Reading a -trace session is instructive. The lynx browser will check if the URL 
argument is local first. Since "first.html" is local, no network activity 
occurs; otherwise you would see name resolution and a GET request.

But see lynx -traversal -crawl

http://lynx.isc.org/current/lynx2-8-7/docs/CRAWL.announce

You will see some of the behaviour you expect.

Stef
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