[HECnet] Lynx

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2013-01-29 15:29, Erik Olofsen wrote:
Yes indeed - unfortunately it doesn't work because Lynx does not allow
a host:: name as part of the url...

I suspected as much from the comments in the url you sent.
Seems silly, though. What happens if you just say "file://mim::info.txt" ?

(I must admit that I'm slightly confused on how many slashes are appropriate...)

	Johnny


Erik


On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 03:26:01PM +0100, Johnny Billquist wrote:
On 2013-01-29 14:53, Erik Olofsen wrote:
If we may use an url such as mim::something.html, which would normally be a
file:// there would be some basic functionality I think?

Right, since that is basically just using the file: transport/protocol.
The fact that files can be accessed transparently over DECnet makes it
possible to access documents "over DECnet".

Depending on how the parsing/handling of the url for something in the
file: domain is done, this might actually work straight away.

	Johnny


Erik


On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 02:04:39PM +0100, Johnny Billquist wrote:
On 2013-01-29 13:44, Erik Olofsen wrote:
HECnetters,

Is anyone interested in using Lynx on HECnet?

Using node names in the url is not possible; some information is here:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lynx-dev/1997-01/msg00057.html

On my Alpha with VMS 6.1, I'm able to compile Lynx version 2.3.

It seems that the latest version, 2.8.7, does not compile under VMS 8.3.

Perhaps I'm going to have a look at the old sources; perhaps I'm going
to do something more useful...

Well, the basic "problem" is that there is no http object defined in
DECnet, nor any equivalent to the http protocol, so how would you expect
it to work?

DECnet is not IP, nor TCP.

	Johnny