Joerg Heinicke wrote:
On 19.09.2007 11:32 Uhr, Daniel Fagerstrom wrote:
While we have a historical tradition of using 2 slashes, but it is
wrong according to the URL standard
(http://gbiv.com/protocols/uri/rfc/rfc3986.html). 1 or 3 slashes is
correct. No idea about how we should handle this fact though ;)
Ok, for Windows it might make sense considering the drives as
authority part: file://C:/temp/file.tmp. Maybe we should talk about
the actual task of this method. Is it about wiping out differences of
the os what I thought so far? Or do we go with the os differences.
Then maybe the test must be more relaxed.
I don't think so. The way I read it C would be a host name a the ":"
would be invalid because it is required to be followed by a port.
http://www.mozilla.org/quality/networking/testing/filetests.html has a
bunch of examples.
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/12/06/file-uris-in-windows.aspx
documents what was done in IE 7.
Of course, I always solve this by using cygwin on Windows...
Ralph
