> OK. Well, I messed up calling it a relative URL. What I thought was
> odd was that the anchor didn't start with http: protocol, just jumped
> right in with the path "/palm". I am not clear as to whether that is
> legal or not.
Though not the w3c, this may help in laymans terms:
http://businesshost.net/html/special/a.html
The server itself will append the proper absoulute path in the GET
request when processed, so it should be transparent as far as the pages you
see when you pull content from port 80.
> I am using linux 2.4.9 kernel and the Redhat 7.1 distribution on my box
> (which has a long history of upgrading ...since pre RH4.2 and a 1.3
> kernel). The url I use is:
>
> <p><a href="http://www.kgw.com/palm/"; MAXDEPTH=4 STAYONHOST>kgw</a></p>
I used this, and it seemed to work:
plucker-build -H "http://www.kgw.com/palm/index.html"; \
-f /tmp/kgw --zlib-compression --bpp=2 \
--maxdepth=4 --stayonhost
The resulting pdb was 30747 bytes and had no broken links.
> Is there some external program called that does the fetching and which
> might not be a current version?
What do you see when you turn up the verbosity?
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