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Re: [Lynx-dev] Only load TLD (like NoScript)
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Ian Collier |
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Re: [Lynx-dev] Only load TLD (like NoScript) |
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Wed, 27 Jul 2022 11:31:02 +0100 |
On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 09:47:03AM +0100, David Woolley wrote:
> A browser that can only access top level domains would be useless, as no
> resources are stored at top level domain addresses. The best I can come up
> with is that this is about not trying different suffixes to a domain name
> that doesn't end in ".", but that is largely done by the resolver library,
> not by application programs (although it is possible that Lynx tries extra
> ones).
It does indeed try extra ones. If you say "lynx foo" you get:
Looking up foo first
Looking up www.foo.com, guessing...
Trying: 'http://www.foo.com'
I've no idea what the OP is on about either, but maybe it's this.
imc