Michał, Chris: could you comment on security aspects and give some
recommendations?
Ben, could you comment on the "user interaction / usability" aspect?
We have few choices here, I'm not sure which one is preferred.
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 23:23, Benjamin Smedberg <bsmedb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> For what it's worth, the way Firefox solves this is:
>
> * Check if the file is an absolute file path
> ** on Windows, X:\... or \\...
> ** on Posix, /...
> * Otherwise, it's a URL relative to the current working directory
> ** So index.html resolves using the URL machinery to
> file:///c:/cwd/index.html
> ** while http://www.google.com resolves to itself
>
> This doesn't deal with the case firefox.exe www.google.com (which would try
> to resolve as a file), but we decided not to care about this case. We do
> have the explicit firefox.exe -url www.google.com which will perform URI
> fixup to guess the correct URL.
>
> --BDS
>
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