Re: Only load TLD (like NoScript)

Ian Collier <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.lynx.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 09:47:03AM +0100, David Woolley wrote:
> A browser that can only access top level domains would be useless, as no
> resources are stored at top level domain addresses.  The best I can come up
> with is that this is about not trying different suffixes to a domain name
> that doesn't end in ".", but that is largely done by the resolver library,
> not by application programs (although it is possible that Lynx tries extra
> ones).

It does indeed try extra ones.  If you say "lynx foo" you get:

Looking up foo first
Looking up www.foo.com, guessing...
Trying: 'http://www.foo.com'

I've no idea what the OP is on about either, but maybe it's this.

imc
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