Ilya Zakharevich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This patch should fix the failure of old_base.t:4 of URI::URL on OS/2.
Applied. > The change is the following: > > a path name of the form D:/dir/filename is encoded as > file:///D:/dir/filename > > a path name extracted from an URL contains slashes. > > AFAIU, this form of the file URL is the suggested one - and it is > supported by all the browsers I checked (lynx, explorer and netscape). The current behaviour is based on what made sense to me, not on how stuff actually works in other apps on Windows. Anybody know a place that describes the de-factor rules for file: URLs on Windows? Regards, Gisle
