From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [jidanni@jidanni.org: browse-url-of-dired-file vs. .gz] Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 00:46:42 +0100 Message-ID: <44A314E2.8040409@gnu.org> References: <34493.128.165.123.18.1151514061.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> <44A2FAFB.1080808@gnu.org> <44A30C30.8000105@student.lu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1151538450 32163 80.91.229.2 (28 Jun 2006 23:47:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 23:47:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Richard M. Stallman" , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 29 01:47:28 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fvjkh-0000ZU-7e for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 01:47:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fvjkg-0005fH-CZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Jun 2006 19:47:22 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FvjkU-0005dh-OM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Jun 2006 19:47:10 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FvjkT-0005dV-9I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Jun 2006 19:47:10 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FvjkT-0005dS-5s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Jun 2006 19:47:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [213.86.207.50] (helo=exchange.integrasp.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1Fvjws-0005Q8-83; Wed, 28 Jun 2006 19:59:58 -0400 Original-Received: from [10.0.0.32] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by exchange.integrasp.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id NMA81SYA; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 00:38:54 +0100 Original-Received: from 83.67.23.108 ([83.67.23.108] helo=[10.0.0.32]) by ASSP-nospam; 29 Jun 2006 00:38:50 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) Original-To: Lennart Borgman In-Reply-To: <44A30C30.8000105@student.lu.se> X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:56271 Archived-At: Lennart Borgman wrote: > Jason Rumney wrote: >> Both are equally valid URLs for a local file. > Thanks for that info. That clears my confusion a bit. But where is > this info? I did a search at w3c.org but did not find it. People used to discuss this regularly in the early days of web browsers, when bugs in browser implementations meant you needed to be familiar with all the possibilities (some browsers used to use ftp if there were two or more slashes after file:). http://groups.google.co.uk/group/comp.infosystems.www.providers/browse_thread/thread/d6642ca04fc461c4/dcbe395dc34c2c92?lnk=st&q=file+url+local&rnum=23&hl=en#dcbe395dc34c2c92 However, I just reviewed the relevant RFCs, and there is no mention of a server-less version of the file: URL scheme, so file:/// does appear be more correct than file:/, at least in theory.