On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 3:13 PM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbar...@mit.edu> wrote: > On 10/29/12 5:00 AM, Anne van Kesteren wrote: >> Maybe I should introduce a "file host state" that supports colons in >> the host name (or special case the "host state" further, but the >> former seems cleaner). > > I don't think that's particularly desirable. The "c:" is totally part of > the path; treating it otherwise would just be confusing. Imo.
But at that point in a URL you cannot have a path. A path starts with a slash after the host. Especially if you want file://test/ to parse with test being the host. >> Most browsers seem to fail currently on input >> such as "file://c:/" but this is on a Mac > > Yes, doing that on a Mac would just be wrong.... I suppose, I would hate it though for new URL(...) to depend on the platform. -- http://annevankesteren.nl/
