Re: lynx-dev file://foo/

[Frédéric L . W . Meunier]

On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Thomas Dickey wrote:

> On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, [ISO-8859-1] Fr?d?ric L. W. Meunier wrote:
>
> > Alert!: Unable to connect to FTP host.
> >
> > FTP host ?
>
> With "file://foo/", that's the top-level directory on host "foo".
> With "file:///foo/", that's a top-level directory named "foo".
>
> In the first case lynx tried connecting to "foo" to get a directory
> listing, which means it's using ftp protocol.

OK. I just never thought file:// and ftp:// would do the same
thing.

ELinks and Links2: file:// -> pwd of the shell, but
file://home/ -> "No such file or directory".

Mozilla: file:// ->  file:/// , but file://foo -> file:///

Opera: file:// -> file:/// , and file://home -> file://home
(/home).

I don't know what's the "right thing".

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