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RE: Who provide for the syntax for "file:///c:/" ?

• To: "Jeff Lowery" <Jeff.Lowery@c...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: Who provide for the syntax for "file:///c:/" ?
• From: "Julian Reschke" <julian.reschke@g...>
• Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 18:25:19 +0200
• Importance: Normal
• In-reply-to: <4827EC373E03DB44AC2AB3900430896B672321@c...>

> From: Jeff Lowery [mailto:Jeff.Lowery@c...]
> Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 6:15 PM
> To: xml-dev@l...
> Subject: RE:  Who provide for the syntax for "file:///c:/" ?
>
>
> File URLs seem to be interpreted diffently by different
> applications.  I've
> seen file:///c:/ fail, or get converted to file://c:/ or file:/c:/ by
> various tools depending presumably on phase of the moon.
>
> RFC2396 is a standard that is frequently implemented in a substandard
> fashion.

Actually, it really isn't RFC2396 (which specs only the general URI syntax).
One big problem here is that RFC2396 obsoletes RFC1738 (which *did* attempt
to define the file: schema) without updating that part as well. I think that
there's now a new activity to get the file: URI scheme specced in a new RFC,
though.

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