Re: Emacs 21 and w3 on Debian

[Tim X]

Klaus Straubinger <KSNetz@UseNet.ArcorNews.DE> writes:

> Tim X <timx@spamto.devnul.com> wrote:
> 
> > An example is
> >
> > http://www.une.edu.au/itd/index.html
> >
> > If you try to follow the "About ITD" link on that page, instead of
> > getting
> >
> > http://www.une.edu.au/itd/about/index.html
> >
> > I get
> >
> > http://www.une.edu.au/about/index.html
> >
> > which doesn't work (obviously).
> 
> With Emacs/W3 from its CVS and Emacs/URL from the Emacs CVS, I get the
> correct link. So I think you have an outdated Emacs/W3 or something
> else is not working correctly.

Hi Klaus,

Can you try http://www.une.edu.au/itd and then try one of the links on
the page you get i.e. "About ITD" and see if that works for you. I've
found that if I use that link instead of
http://www.une.edu.au/itd/index.html, it doesn't work, but if I 
use the full link with the index.html on the end, relative links work
OK.  

I'm guessing the problem is that Emacs/W3 is interpreting a link that
ends without the explicit .html page (e.g. index.html) incorrectly -
its stripping the last element off the link and adding the relative
link to that, which is incorrect. 

regards,

Tim


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