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Re: LYNX-DEV Suggestion: parse .shtml as an HTML file
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Jim Dennis |
Subject: |
Re: LYNX-DEV Suggestion: parse .shtml as an HTML file |
Date: |
Mon, 28 Jul 1997 20:48:11 -0700 |
> Hi, lynx maintainers. I thank you for releasing such a great web
> browser!
>
> Nowadays, more and more HTML files has extension other than .html.
> For example, .shtml for SSI HTML, .phtml for PHP/FI embedded HTML.
> Browsing those HTML files from the command line like this:
>
> % lynx index.phtml
>
> doesn't parse HTML tags, because lynx assume it is a plain text.
> I want lynx to recognize files as HTML files, if the files have
> extensions defined in lynx.cfg like:
>
> HTML_EXTENSIONS:html,shtml,phtml
>
> I appreciate your implementing this.
This would be very difficult to do in Lynx (or any
browser). It would make a great deal more sense to
place the page(s) (or links thereto) under some directory
that was accessible by the http daemon and use a "localhost"
URL.
For example I can see things under my public_html directory
as parsed by my local HTTP daemon by issuing the command:
lynx http://localhost/~jimd
This should also let you use any locally available CGI scripts
and forms.
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