From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: file://host/location URLs Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 09:18:50 -0500 Message-ID: References: <50A57E1A.4040109@dancol.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1353075537 5026 80.91.229.3 (16 Nov 2012 14:18:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 14:18:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs discussions To: Daniel Colascione Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 16 15:19:08 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TZMlA-0005kg-Af for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 15:19:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48782 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TZMl0-0001ar-Ck for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 09:18:58 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:44876) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TZMkw-0001Za-Ic for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 09:18:57 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TZMkt-0002Sp-GL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 09:18:54 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.182]:34414) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TZMkt-0002Si-BB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 09:18:51 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av0EAG6Zu09sr+ZY/2dsb2JhbABEtBGBCIIVAQEEAVYjBQsLDiYSFBgNJIgcBboJkEQDiEKacYFYgwc X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.75,637,1330923600"; d="scan'208";a="207766708" Original-Received: from 108-175-230-88.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([108.175.230.88]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 16 Nov 2012 09:18:50 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 729B958BDA; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 09:18:50 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <50A57E1A.4040109@dancol.org> (Daniel Colascione's message of "Thu, 15 Nov 2012 15:43:22 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.182 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:154881 Archived-At: > I found it extremely surprising that a file:// URL can try to FTP into > a remote machine. Can we please remove that behavior? Please do. > If a user wants to use FTP, he should be able to use an FTP URL. Agreed. > In fact, I really don't see why file:// URLs should go through > url-handlers.el at all. A file URL should be a simple pass-through to > the normal file handler machinery, yes? Someone has to do the "pass-through", and I think it's OK if that someone is url-handlers. Stefan