Re: "file:///c:/..." or "file:///c|/..." ?

Hi,

don't know if this counts anything, but the pipe character
is forbidden in a URI.

See the URI specification (RFC 2396) which is a superset of the URL
specification which is a superset of the "file:" protocol scheme.

To be precise the pipe character falls into the "unwise" character
set (see "2.4.3. Excluded US-ASCII Characters").

BTW Does there exists a RFC which describes the "file:" scheme?

To answer the question. IMHO only the "c:" syntax should work.

Olli

Luke Blanshard wrote:
> I think old versions of Netscape used the latter syntax. The current
> version does not.
>
> Julian Foad wrote:
>
>> Which of these is/are supposed to work (on Windows)?
>>
>> file:///c:/...
>> file:///c|/...
>>
>> Both forms are described in the book, but only the first seems to
>> work. Is the second form, with a bar, also supposed to work?

---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscribe@subversion.tigris.org
For additional commands, e-mail: dev-help@subversion.tigris.org
Received on Wed Sep 3 20:44:01 2003