From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim X Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs 21 and w3 on Debian Date: 24 May 2005 18:17:17 +1000 Message-ID: <873bsdavhu.fsf@tiger.rapttech.com.au> References: <87sm0fbjx4.fsf@tiger.rapttech.com.au> <874qcvqar0.fsf@spamfoil.invalid> <87oeb2c2x5.fsf@tiger.rapttech.com.au> <87fywebcp7.fsf@tiger.rapttech.com.au> Reply-To: timx@spamto.devnul.com NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1116925980 763 80.91.229.2 (24 May 2005 09:13:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 09:13:00 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 24 11:12:51 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DaVRv-00020N-7s for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 May 2005 11:11:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DaVVY-0006iS-8y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 May 2005 05:15:28 -0400 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 39 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp21-36.lns2.syd3.internode.on.net Original-X-Trace: duster.adelaide.on.net 1116922638 59.167.21.36 (24 May 2005 17:47:18 +0950) Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!nntp-out.svc.us.xo.net!nntp1-feeder.SJ.svc.us.xo.net!newsfeed.concentric.net!sjc1.nntp.concentric.net!newsfeed-3001.bay.webtv.net!news.moat.net!quokka.wn.com.au!token.pipenetworks.com!duster.adelaide.on.net!not-for-mail Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:131487 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:26944 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:26944 Klaus Straubinger writes: > Tim X wrote: > > > Can you try http://www.une.edu.au/itd and then try one of the links on > > the page you get i.e. "About ITD" and see if that works for you. > > That does not work, indeed. I have found that the problem has its root > in the handling directories without the trailing "/". If you try > "http://www.une.edu.au/itd/" (note the trailing slash) you will see the > difference. > > > I've found that if I use that link instead of > > http://www.une.edu.au/itd/index.html, it doesn't work, but if I use > > the full link with the index.html on the end, relative links work OK. > > That will work, too, yes. > > > I'm guessing the problem is that Emacs/W3 is interpreting a link that > > ends without the explicit .html page (e.g. index.html) incorrectly - > > its stripping the last element off the link and adding the relative > > link to that, which is incorrect. > > I have my own suspicion, see above. However, I have not had enough > energy to fix it. Maybe it is widespread but incorrect HTML usage > and Emacs/W3 is not to blame. > Thanks Klaus. I think your right in that without the / it is incorrect (technically). Unfortunately, most other browsers I've tried do work without the slash, so I guess its one of those examples where the technical spec and common use differ. Tim -- Tim Cross The e-mail address on this message is FALSE (obviously!). My real e-mail is to a company in Australia called rapttech and my login is tcross - if you really need to send mail, you should be able to work it out!