Re: URLs

Hi BTW (I'm mostly lurking, too new)

On 2001-02-09 at 08:02 +0100, Daniel Stenberg gifted us with:
> > file:/usr/local/svn/foo/bar/baz/bop
>
> Nitpick time: that is not a valid URL ;-)

:^)

> ... where nothing ever (AFAIK) supports a host-part that is anything but
> blank, 127.0.0.1 or localhost.

Wide-area filesystems allow it. Depends on the software used ...

Whilst I've not used it myself, I've seen references to file scheme URLs
which use a hostname in conjunction with AFS.

So, what assumptions do you make about the underlying FS?

Although a quick Google search turned up this:
 <http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/IT94/Proceedings/DDay/spasojevic/sec3.html>
which mentions mapping to a canonical form using localhost. Since it
looks like that's 1994, you might be able to now get away with only
supporting localhost. *shrugs*

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