Branko Čibej wrote:
> Klaus Rennecke wrote:
>
>> [...] See Section 3.10 in http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1738.html where
>> the file:/// URL is the special case with host name omitted because
>> it is localhost.
>>
>> So it's file:/// and *not* file://.
>
>
> That paragraph says:
>
> As a special case, <host> can be the string "localhost" or the empty
> string; this is interpreted as `the machine from which the URL is
> being interpreted'.
>
> Note, "can be", not "must be". So to be consistent, it's "http:// and
> file://", not "http:// and file:///". because the second form implies
> a certain value for the scheme-specific data, and the first doesn't.
True. I give, you win :-)
It just happened to me that in some completely unrelated case people
were appending the absolute file name to file:// so that it resulted in
OK URLs on unix, but invalid (host name "C:") on weirder OSes.
> In fact, when we talk just about the RA-specific URL scheme, we should
> be using only "http:", "svn:" and "file:" -- the double slashes aren't
> part of the scheme, according to that RFC. [...]
Yes that sounds like a good suggestion. It is even easier on the eyes
because the email client does not highlight it as a link.
/Klaus
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Received on Tue Jul 6 00:32:14 2004