Re: Latest Win32 binaries

On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Greg Stein wrote:

> > I don't think file://d:/blah is a valid URL, so you might try
>
> Yes, it is a valid URL. Consider http://host:port/path ...

Valid URL indeed, but not a URL that a windows user would want. Since they
want the letter and the colon to be part of the path, not to be host and port
number.

> > dealing with it the way Netscape did:
> >
> > file:///d|/blah
> >
> > i.e. three /'s and a pipe symbol instead of a colon.
>
> Bogus.
>
> Probably just a simple parse error somewhere...

Yes, the colon should probably be URL-encoded to be fully standards
compliant:

 file:///d%7c/blah

I am in favour of supporting netscape's apprach just because they've been
using it widely and extensively for a long period of time.

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