I did some further testing. It looks like lynx will work with IPv6 gopher. (Finding a server was pretty hard... Its called bucktooth if anyone is interested.)
It looks like this might be a bug merely in HTFinger.c It seems that in the case of finger:// addresses, anything lynx deems to be the port is tested, and even IF the port passes the test (must equal 79), it is still omitted. (because, it could only be one value, according to lynx). This means, if you were to type: $ lynx finger://[:79] It would indeed pass the test , but then you would get: Looking up [ Unable to locate remote host [. Alert!: Could not access finger host. Showing us that everything past and including the colon are removed. This also works with arbitrary numbers and/or letters appended to the end. fir example: $ lynx finger://[:79]09842093840298402834 You would again get: Looking up [ Unable to locate remote host [. Alert!: Could not access finger host. It does, however, accept IPv6-style addresses without colons, but I'm pretty sure these don't exist. Hope this helps, Elliot. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
