Re: [Lynx-dev] Issue with lynx --source and gopher menus with h gophertype

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 07:04:01PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 04:47:56PM -0400, Zachary Lee Andrews wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On Sun, 30 Aug 2020, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > 
> > > The short answer is that lynx doesn't recognize the other characters
> > > as being special.
> > > 
> > > We're talking about the chunk of code beginning here:
> > > 
> > > https://github.com/ThomasDickey/lynx-snapshots/blob/558af4865a2d668cfaaba88477df07d256c1a97c/WWW/Library/Implementation/HTGopher.c#L445
> > > 
> > 
> > I solved all the issues I was having by removing lines 448 and 449..
> > 
> > 
> > After making the change, I created a new testcase to see how lynx handles
> > gophermaps with regular HTML files, and weblinks using the old 'GET /'
> > method, the newer 'hURL:' method, and I even put some blatantly wrong
> > examples in there just to see how lynx behaves when encountering them. It
> > does great.
> 
> thanks - will take a look when I'm done putting out a different fire :-)
> 
> In the earlier discussion and example, the "GET" was passed along as "/GET",
> which didn't work...

Here's a gophermap with links for the case you constructed and the
test-case from Tobias Girstmair in April 2019:

https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/lynx-dev/2019-04/msg00004.html

In the current code, both test-cases work; removing those lines
makes the "GET" example stop working.

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Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
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