Re: lynx-dev file://foo/

[Stef Caunter]

Isn't there a file referer that can be sent although usually
not? The term implies, to me, localness.

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On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, [ISO-8859-1] Fr?d?ric L. W. Meunier wrote:

> 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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