Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have apache installed and lynx, netscape and mozilla do not have a >problem to load http://localhost. > >However, links and w3m fails. Links' error message is: "Host not found" >and w3m's: "Can't load http://localhost";. > >Does this have something to do with apache's configuration?
Does http://localhost/ work? Leaving off the trailing slash only works because of a collection of ugly hacks, and URLs shouldn't be stated that way. When you forget the trailing slash on a directory, web servers construct a redirection response to add it back in (Apache has a UseCanonicalName directive which is relevant to how it does this). However, it's not clear to me that something like http://localhost is well-defined, since a client which didn't explicitly hack around that malformed URL would end up sending an HTTP request like 'GET HTTP/1.1' (instead of the usual 'GET / HTTP/1.1' etc.), and web servers won't understand that. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
