- From: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 22:39:34 +0100 (BST)
- To: lynx-dev@sig.net
- Cc: asgilman@access.digex.net, uri@bunyip.com
> > What is currently widely deployed is > news:[//host/]newsgroup > > rather than 'nttp:'. So I suggest we just try to write up what people > are using rather than continuing to push on "nntp:". I think this is only people using Netscape browsers. Microsoft Interenet Explorer 3 doesn't understand this particular abuse, and nor do any of caching proxies available from my office (not that I can find a caching proxy that understands nntp: either, but at least the reject it without getting confused). (MSIE 3 tries to launch Microsoft News, which tries for the default news server.) Personally, I think any such interpretation of news:// should be enabled by an option which defaults to disabled, to just make people aware that the URL is broken.
Received on Wednesday, 20 August 1997 02:50:43 UTC