Re: Error on Yahoo news

On Fri, 21 Aug 2015 18:40:18 , Peter Slegg <p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk> wrote:
> > Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2015 14:18:44 +0100
> > From: "Richard Torrens (lists)" <Lists@Torrens.org.uk>
> > Subject: Re: Error on Yahoo news
> > To: <netsurf-users@netsurf-browser.org>
> > Peter Slegg <p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk> wrote:
> > > This url uk.news.yahoo.com just gives me the error
> >
> > It strikes me that that is not a URL.
> >
> > As this is a Netsurf list, do you mean http://uk.news.yahoo.com ? That
> > orks here. As does https://uk.news.yahoo.com
> >
>
> Is the http really necessary ? Shouldn't it just
> direct to http://uk.news.yahoo.com in any case ?
>
> The link I was given wasn't https but the https page does try to
> open, sometimes, it keeps timing out and often the css layout is
> missing.

PS
I had actually followed the News link from http://uk.yahoo.com
and that was to http://uk.news.yahoo.com and gives the GET error.

Peter