On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 05:59:48PM +0200, Klaus Rennecke wrote:
> Mark Benedetto King wrote:
>
> >On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 05:49:36AM -0500, lundblad@tigris.org wrote:
> >[...]
> >>* libsvn_ra_local/split_url.c (svn_ra_local__split_url): Change
> >>"localhost/"
> >>to "localhost" in comparison to URL hostname.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >Is this just something we have for convenience, or is there
> >a real specification of this behaviour?
>
> RFC 1738, section 3.10 Files http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1738.html
>
> "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'."
>
Thank you, that's exactly what I was hoping.
>
> >What about, for example,
> >localhost.localdomain? Or 127.0.0.1?
> >[...]
>
> These are not covered. Especially 127.0.0.1 is far less universal than
> people tend to think.
>
Right! I was afraid we were hardcoding something that might be site
dependant.
--ben
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