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Re: Relative URLs using the file scheme?

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• Subject: Re: Relative URLs using the file scheme?
• From: james anderson <james.anderson@s...>
• Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 00:45:33 +0200
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• References: <3DACA738.6070600@a...> <p04330100b9d2e2868726@[192.168.254.4]> <3DAD4C1D.C02A377A@s...> <p04330106b9d30244eae7@[192.168.254.4]> <3DADCC16.5010709@y...>
• Reply-to: james.anderson@s...

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"J.Pietschmann" wrote:
> 
> Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
>  >> i've wondered about forms such as "file://C:/Files/Schemas/test.xsd",
>  >> which specifies a "host" "C:".
> 
> I think it specifies a host C. The colon should be accepted as separator
> for the following port number, IIRC the production is
>    file://[user[:password]@]host[:port][/pathcomponent?]*
> 
>  > The host is a domain name of a network host, or its IPv4 address as a
>  >    set of four decimal digit groups separated by ".".  Literal IPv6
>  >    addresses are not supported.
>  >
>  > There's no room for another kind of host.
> 
> A C as hostname would be legal. But the string above fails the port
> part of the production, if there is a colon, a decimal number designing
> the port should follow.

unless port is specified to be *digit. does not rfc 2396 apply?

yet this remains speculation.

is there any literature which discusses mapping the conventions which prevail in common file systems to the syntax of file urls?


> 
> J.Pietschmann
>

• References:
  • Relative URLs using the file scheme?
    • From: Eddie Robertsson <erobertsson@a...>
  • Re: Relative URLs using the file scheme?
    • From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
  • Re: Relative URLs using the file scheme?
    • From: james anderson <james.anderson@s...>
  • Re: Relative URLs using the file scheme?
    • From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
  • Re: Relative URLs using the file scheme?
    • From: "J.Pietschmann" <j3322ptm@y...>

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