Re: URLs

>> ... 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.

AFS has a single file namespace; it can't do anything with a hostname.
(An AFS path generally looks like
/afs/this.looks.like.a.host.name/stuff/here, but the second component
is not a hostname and does not get looked up in the DNS; it is
resolved through AFS by the local cell like any other path component.)
Received on Sat Oct 21 14:36:21 2006