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Re: Relative URLs using the file scheme?

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• Subject: Re: Relative URLs using the file scheme?
• From: Richard Tobin <richard@c...>
• Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 12:38:01 GMT
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• Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh

>1738 allows file:///home/users/elharo/index.html because section 3.10 
>states "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'."

>However, I can't make this square with the BNF grammar in 2396.

What's the problem?  <host> is the authority part of net_path, and
authority can be server which can be empty.

-- Richard

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