Re: Lynx / httpd / me being thick problem

Lou Montulli ([email protected])
Fri, 15 Oct 93 13:23:20 CDT

>
> We experienced the same problem with Lynx, when referencing an internal
> anchor (#xyz). Lou Montulli told me there was a bug that affected
> that produced this behavior when you referenced the file using FILE:
> type, but that it did not occur when you referenced the file through
> the server using HTTP:. The workaround is to run a local server and
> access the files through it, rather than directly.
>
I was able to track that bug down a little more and discovered the
problem was coming out of HTParse withing LibWWW. The workaround
is actually a little easier than I first descibed. If you
simple reference the file with "localhost" as the host name
you can read off of the local disk and make it work. The reference
would look something like this.

file://localhost/PATH/FILE

Where PATH and FILE are replaced with the pathname and filename
respecively.

:lou

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