Re: Debian WWW standards version 2.1
Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@megabaud.fi> writes:
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> Bruce Perens wrote:
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> > | 3. No text, and deleting the two slashes before <hostname>,
> > | as in the form "http:/debian/foo.html".
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> and later
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> > | For example a URL to another file in the same
> > | directory tree can be of the form "http:../dwww/foo.html",
> > | and a URL to another file in a different directory tree can be
> > | of the form "http:/debian/ROM.documents/foo.html".
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> How should these URLs work?
> I wasn't able to use this type with lynx nor Netscape (using for example
> http:/dwww/dwww.html while http://localhost/dwww/dwww.html works.
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> > |it may be possible to leave the protocol portion "http:" out of URLs.
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> I don't understand. URLs are not valid without a protocol.
> Maybe you are talking of Anchors?
> "to leave the protocol portion "http:" out of HREF attribute in Anchors"
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These are all relative URLs you cannot specify them on the command
line because they have to be relative to something.
See rfc1808 for details.
Andy.
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