Greetings. I'm brand-new to this list, so please forgive me if I'm re-raising an issue that has already been bashed to death. (I tried searching through the archives for earlier mention... the discussion around <http://www.flora.org/lynx-dev/html/month052002/msg00061.html> was the closest I could come up with with regard to recent versions of Lynx, and that seemed somewhat inconclusive. But then again, perhaps there _is_ no conclusion.)
It has to do with how Lynx generates/extracts/determines/whatevers a base href for use with an HTML page that contains no explicit "BASE HREF=..." statement of its own. Take two running-on-Unix-machines versions of Lynx: Lynx Version 2.7.1 (1997) and: Lynx Version 2.8.4rel.1 (17 Jul 2001) Give them both the command: lynx -base -source http://www.cuttingsarchive.org.uk/telos/ at about the same time (roughly 2010 GMT, 1 March 2003) and their outputs will differ in the header forced by the "-base" option. 2.7.1's header will be: <!-- X-URL: http://www.cuttingsarchive.org.uk/telos/ --> <BASE HREF="http://www.cuttingsarchive.org.uk/telos/";> and 2.8.4rel.1's will be: <!-- X-URL: http://www.cuttingsarchive.org.uk/telos/ --> <!-- Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2003 20:10:05 GMT --> <!-- Last-Modified: Sat, 01 Mar 2003 17:24:47 GMT --> <BASE HREF="http://www.cuttingsarchive.org.uk/EASYNET1/r/a/r.anderson/telos/index.htm";> Question: which of those base hrefs is the one that Lynx is supposed to resolve to/determine/generate, and why? (Note: I am able to navigate this site's links under 2.7.1, whereas I get 404'd on every link under 2.8.4rel.1. On the other hand, when I append "index.htm" to the URL (giving Lynx a file rather than a directory as its target?) the site _is_ navigable under 2.8.4rel.1.) -- William December Starr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ; To UNSUBSCRIBE: Send "unsubscribe lynx-dev" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
