Re: w3m wouldn't load http://localhost

[cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson) wrote:
>Johann Spies <jhspies@adept.co.za> wrote:
>>I have apache installed and lynx, netscape and mozilla do not have a
>>problem to load http://localhost.
>>
>>However, links and w3m fails.  Links' error message is: "Host not found"
>>and w3m's: "Can't load http://localhost";.
>>
>>Does this have something to do with apache's configuration?
>
>Does http://localhost/ work? Leaving off the trailing slash only works
>because of a collection of ugly hacks, and URLs shouldn't be stated that
>way.

That said, http://localhost does work here on both links and w3m (this
is a woody system). What are the settings for ServerName and
UseCanonicalName in your httpd.conf?

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]