Re: [w3m-dev-en 00602] what happened to the http: ?

[hsaka@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Hironori Sakamoto)]

Hi,

This is the bug of emacs-w3m. w3m doesn't have this bug.
I forwarded your message to emacs-w3m ML (emacs-w3m@namazu.org).

> Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 23:40:56 +0900
> From: "Clifford Caoile" <piyokun@email.com>
> Subject: [w3m-dev-en 00602] what happened to the http: ?
> To: <w3m-dev-en@mi.med.tohoku.ac.jp>
>
> w3m-dev-en:
>
> Hello from Kobe, Japan! My name is Cliff. I'm still learning
> Japanese, so I'll just write this email in English this time.
>
> I'm using w3m-0.2.1-inu-1.4 by Dai SATO [1] to integrate
> with Meadow 1.14 (emacs for MS-IME) [2]. When I use this version
> and visit slashdot.org [2], some of the link tags have their
> urls changed. More precisely, sometimes the "http:" is
> deleted.
>
> Here's a sample source from the page:
>
>     &nbsp;<A HREF="//slashdot.org/faq/">faq</A>  | 
>     &nbsp;<A HREF="//slashdot.org/code.shtml">code</A>  | 
>     &nbsp;<A HREF="http://www.osdn.com/">osdn</A>  | 
>     &nbsp;<A HREF="//slashdot.org/awards.shtml">awards</A>  | 
>
> I tried checking what Internet Explorer 6.0 recieves.
> Shockingly, it receives the same thing. However, clicking on
> the link in IE still correctly traverses the link. In w3m,
> the link URL is prepended with the "http://" and the
> hostname, like when I follow the FAQ link:
>
>     http://slashdot.org//slashdot.org/faq/
>
> My question is not why the "http:" disappears, it is this:
> Is it appropriate for w3m or the emacs-w3m interface code to
> convert link urls with "//" at the head to include an
> "http:"?
>
> References:
> [1] http://mi.med.tohoku.ac.jp/~satodai/w3m/inusrc/
> [2] http://www.boreas.dti.ne.jp/~miyoshi/Meadow/elisp2.html#emacs-w3m
> [3] http://slashdot.org
>
> TIA
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