On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 11:28:56 -0400, Cheetah wrote:
> The documentation clearly states that using an authority other than
> localhost is not permitted. However, AFAICT, the standard form of a file:
> URI on windows for a UNC path uses exactly that.
That's in accord with the URL specification. file: schema may not have any
authority except empty or localhost.
> For example, the UNC path \\darkstar\home\fred\data.db would map to the
> example invalid URI file://darkstar/home/fred/data.db in the documentation.
No, correct URL is:
file://///darkstar/home/fred/data.db
> Windows does accept file://\\darkstar/home/fred/data.db as an equivalent,
You missed one /. There is 5 of them. And all of them should be forward,
backslash is not valid URI character.
> but the APIs I've seen to automatically convert a file path to a file: URI
> will generate the former format which SQLite does not accept.
That would be invalid. Just substitute file:// with file://///.
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Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <b...@ucw.cz>
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