From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 10 16:26:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA23105 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 10 Sep 1996 16:26:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from srv1-bsb.GNS.com.br ([200.239.56.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA23098 for ; Tue, 10 Sep 1996 16:25:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mail@localhost) by srv1-bsb.GNS.com.br (8.7.5/8.7.5) id UAA01944; Tue, 10 Sep 1996 20:25:21 -0300 (EST) Received: from dl0102-bsb.gns.com.br(200.239.56.102) by srv1-bsb.GNS.com.br via smap (V1.3) id sma001841; Tue Sep 10 20:24:45 1996 Received: by DANIEL.sobral (IBM OS/2 SENDMAIL VERSION 1.3.14/2.12um) id AA0059; Tue, 10 Sep 96 19:49:42 +0300 Message-Id: <9609101649.AA0059@DANIEL.sobral> Date: Tue, 10 Sep 96 19:49:41 +0300 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" Subject: No hostname? To: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Reply-To: e8917523@linf.unb.br In-Reply-To: <199609101147.EAA11290@freefall.freebsd.org> from "owner-hackers-digest@freefall.freebsd.org" at Sep 10 96 4:47 am X-Disclaimer: Klaatu Barada Nikto! X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11] for OS/2 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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