lynx URL format ?

An extract of:
http://symptoms.wrongdiagnosis.com/cosymptoms/\
arm-numbness/taste-symptoms.htm
is

164. http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/p/paralytic_shell
fish_poisoning/intro.htm
165. http://wrongdiagnosis.com/../sym/hand_numbness.htm

Where I've wrapped the line statrting with "164.";
which is a good URL descendant of the original page.

But URL '165." is problematic to use as an URL.
In this context what does the "/../" part of the URL
mean ? And what is the proper full URL ?

Thanks for any feedback,

== Chris Glur.

problems@gmail writes:

> 165. http://wrongdiagnosis.com/../sym/hand_numbness.htm

> But URL '165." is problematic to use as an URL.
> In this context what does the "/../" part of the URL
> mean ? And what is the proper full URL ?

It ought to mean "go up a directory level" -- in context it seems to
be a problem! Not quite sure why it's giving the error it is instead
of a 404...

I tried it in firefox, which silently transmogrified that URL into
http://wrongdiagnosis.com/sym/hand_numbness.htm (dropped the '/..') and
the new link worked.