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>The use of file: URIs are fraught with so many hassles regarding >their proper construction and security that it's darned tough to >justify using them. I disagree. It's useful for a program that handles URIs - an XML parser, for example - to be able to handle local files without having to special-case them everywhere. file: URLs provide a natural way to do that. >And given that many, if not all, fileservers can make use of webdav >it'd be just as easy to use http URLs. Fileserver? I'm supposed to have a fileserver to access the files on my local disk? And if I could access all the files on my computer using http: URLs, all the security problems would just be moved. My web browser won't follow a link from an http: page to a file: page; if I could access the same files through http: URLs the security would be worse, not better. -- Richard
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