Re: [Lynx-dev] Broken Gopher-to-Telnet links

[Thorsten Glaser]

Thomas Dickey dixit:

>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.
[…]
>> whereas I, for one, would expect:
>>
>>      telnet://foobar-bbs.net:6359/
>
>From the context, you're expecting lynx to guess which of the nearby
>urls has a suitable site for filling in the missing information.

What missing information?

If the username is empty the resulting telnet URL should just not
have any username listed, which was even the expected behaviour
the OP wrote.

In fact, *not* having a username, but relying on remote login(8)
for authentification instead, is the default telnet behaviour.

So there is not any “missing information” that needs filling.

bye,
//mirabilos
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