On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 11:11:13PM +0000, David Woolley wrote: > It's possible that the person who is getting failed to connect is not > using a proxy and getting a DNS error as a result of looking up the > whole field.
I'm puzzled (but if the url stays there until I have time to trace it properly, I may find out if there is something to fix in lynx - sounds likely based on the results from Opera - if it were only links, I probably would ignore the report). > > Security warning: you are about to go to an address > > that contained a username before the servername: > > That's a good description of the real problem. I would say that > you should almost certainly abandon any URL that produces this warning > as it is almost certainly malicious. but what if I _wanted_ to go there? (I'd rather get the warning). -- Thomas E. Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net ; To UNSUBSCRIBE: Send "unsubscribe lynx-dev" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
