Re: lynx-dev <BASE> added to files when downloading

[David Woolley]

> 
> Lynx adds two extra lines when downloading a file. e.g.
> 
> <!-- X-URL: http://www-rks/rks/info/kursinfo.htm -->
> <BASE HREF="http://www-rks/rks/info/kursinfo.htm";>
> 
> The problem is that the host name is not fully qualified, and the syntax is
> illegal ( a <BASE> element may only appear insoide a header).

There has been a fair amount of discussion of this in the past.  There
are reasons for the way it is done, and I believe you should use -source
(or wget) if you want a clean version of the HTML source.

The domain name is almost certainly the result of using an illegal
URL in the first place.