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Re: [Lynx-dev] Broken Gopher-to-Telnet links
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From: |
Thomas Dickey |
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Subject: |
Re: [Lynx-dev] Broken Gopher-to-Telnet links |
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Date: |
Sun, 18 Oct 2020 20:44:00 -0400 (EDT) |
----- Original Message -----
| From: "Thorsten Glaser" <tg@mirbsd.de>
| To: "Thomas Dickey" <dickey@his.com>
| Cc: "Dario Niedermann" <dario@darioniedermann.it>, "lynx-dev"
<lynx-dev@nongnu.org>
| Sent: Sunday, October 18, 2020 7:56:58 PM
| Subject: Re: [Lynx-dev] Broken Gopher-to-Telnet links
| Thomas Dickey dixit:
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|>On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 05:44:56PM +0200, Dario Niedermann wrote:
|>> Lynx 2.8.9dev.11 seems to have a problem with Gopher-to-Telnet links where
|>> the selector part is empty.
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|>> whereas I, for one, would expect:
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|>> telnet://foobar-bbs.net:6359/
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|>From the context, you're expecting lynx to guess which of the nearby
|>urls has a suitable site for filling in the missing information.
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| What missing information?
I didn't look at the trace, thinking that there was no hostname.
Actually the trace shows that there is (so it's a coding error in lynx).
(your comment hints that you didn't look at the trace either, but the reminder
helps)
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Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
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