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Date:      Tue, 10 Sep 96 19:49:41 +0300
From:      "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@gns.com.br>
To:        hackers@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   No hostname?
Message-ID:  <9609101649.AA0059@DANIEL.sobral>
In-Reply-To: <199609101147.EAA11290@freefall.freebsd.org> from "owner-hackers-digest@freefall.freebsd.org" at Sep 10 96 4:47 am

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> > Hm, maybe a computer name in the URLs? :-) They won't work like that...
> > [without a hostname]
> 
> Actually, some do, at least with Netscrape.  Try these URLs:

[stuff]

> That's right: you don't need http://, www., or even .com/.  Netscrape
> assumes all that.  Heck, even

For that matter, Lynx does that too, and it's configurable, so I can
set it to search for things in my country, for example. But neither
Netscape nor Lynx would be able to figure out to what computer a
directory belongs! (i.e., no *hostname*)

-- 
Daniel C. Sobral                (8-DCS)
dcs@gns.com.br
e8917523@linf.unb.br



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