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URL Schemes Supported in Lynx

Lynx handles a number of URL types, that are enumerated below. For more details about URLs (Uniform Resource Locators) see RFC1738:

Lynx resolves partial or relative URLs in documents with respect to the BASE if one was specified, otherwise with respect to the document's absolute URL, using the rules described in RFC1808:

and in subsequent drafts of the IETF:

When entering a URL on the command line to be used as the startfile, or at the prompt for a 'g'oto entry, a partial host field can be used and the scheme field can be omitted if the scheme and fully qualified domain name can be constructed internally by using the URL_DOMAIN_PREFIXES and URL_DOMAIN_SUFFIXES definitions in the Lynx configuration file. See the explanation of those definitions and their use in your lynx.cfg. For example, wfbr will be treated as http://www.wfbr.edu/, and wfbr/dir/lynx will be treated as http://www.wfbr.edu/dir/lynx, but gopher.wfbr.edu/11/_fileserv/_lynx will be treated as gopher://gopher.wfbr.edu/11/_fileserv/_lynx. For files or directories on the local host, a tilde (~) is expanded to the path of the account's login directory, e.g., ~/foo will be expanded to file://localhost/your/login/directory/foo. The tilde expansion is done homologously on Unix and VMS. On VMS, Lynx also will expand any file or directory spec recognizable to DCL into a valid URL, e.g., [] will be expanded to file://localhost/current/default/directory. These expansions are SOLELY for startfile or 'g'oto entries! Any partial or relative URLs within HTML documents are resolved according to the rules specified in RFC1808 and subsequent IETF drafts.

The http and https URLs:

Lynx handles http URLs exactly as specified in RFC1738. The format is: 
      http://host:port/path?searchpart#fragment
where :port is optional and defaults to :80, /path if present is a slash-separated series of symbolic elements, and ?searchpart if present is the query for an ISINDEX search or the content of a FORM with METHOD="GET". The #fragment field if present indicates a location in the document to seek for display, based on a NAME-ed anchor or an ID attribute within the document, and is technically an instruction rather than part of the URL. Lynx will treat ID attributes as NAME-ed anchors for all tags in the BODY of a document which can correspond to positions in the rendering of the document.

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