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Re: file: URIs and MS Windows

• From: Henrik Frystyk Nielsen <henrikn@m...>
• To: "'richard@c...'" <richard@c...>
• Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 10:30:09 -0700

"Richard Tobin" <richard@c...> wrote in message
news:<8ekar1$1b6v$1@p...>...

> >So according to the RFC, the following are legal:
> >
> >file://localhost/c:/xml/xsl.bat
> >file:///c:/xml/xsl.bat
> 
> I had always supposed (until I looked at the RFC) that things like
> 
>   file:/foo/bar
> 
> were legal, since that's what Netscape gives me on Unix when I open a
> file.  I can't find any justification for it; is there a generic URI
> rule anywhere that says a URI with no //host part is equivalent to the
> same with an empty string as the host?

The specification of file: is somewhat fuzzy - RFC 1738 has been replaced
with RFC 2396 which does allow the short format you have above (and which is
the one I like the best - it also works with "file:/c:/foo").

Henrik 
 

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