Help! Links w/Lynx don't work

[Andrea Duda]

Looking at the source file for this page shows things like this:

	<LI><STRONG>Web search tools [<A HREF="http://altavista.
	digital.com/">Alta Vista</A> || <A HREF="http://www.
	webcrawler.com/">Webcrawler</A> || <A HREF="http://
	www.lycos.com/">Lycos</A> || <A HREF="http://www.excite.
	com/">Excite</A> ]</STRONG>

Apparently Netscape can handle URLs that are split across two lines, but 
Lynx cannot.  When I edited the page so that URLs were on a single line, 
Lynx was able to connect to all the search engines without a problem.

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                                Andrea L. Duda             
                    Networked Information Access Coordinator
           Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara 
                         E-mail: duda at library.ucsb.edu
                     InfoSurf: http://www.library.ucsb.edu
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On Mon, 17 Mar 1997, Joe Schallan wrote:

> Hello webbers,
> 
> We have a "good links" page for the public.  There are two
> ways to use it:  Come into the library and access it with
> Netscape, or dial in to our OPAC and access it with Lynx.
> Among the various links we provide are several to search
> engines such as Alta Vista and several to web directories
> such as Yahoo.  When patrons use the graphical
> browser (the preponderance of our use by patrons), there
> is no problem -- the links work.  When dial-up patrons
> hit our links page in Lynx, however, the links to the
> search engines and web directories -- and *only* these
> links -- do not work.  They get a "can't locate server"
> message.  Why is this happening?  The only thing I
> can think of is that Lynx does not care for the
> trailing slash, as in http://www.yahoo.com/
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> You can view our links page at
> 
> http://162.126.95.79/publinks.htm
> 
> Thanks in advance for the help.  Replies to me,
> not to the list.
> 
> Joe
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Joe Schallan, MLS                             jschall at glenpub.lib.az.us
> Reference Librarian and Web Page Editor
> Glendale (Arizona) Public Library                        (602) 930-3555
> 
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