From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: James Cloos Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: file://host/location URLs Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 19:58:50 -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 1353114434 21062 80.91.229.3 (17 Nov 2012 01:07:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2012 01:07:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Daniel Colascione To: Emacs discussions Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 17 02:07:25 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 1TZWsW-0002O4-PD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 Nov 2012 02:07:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46012 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TZWsM-0006TA-GL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 20:07:14 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:43000) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TZWsH-0006S6-IC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 20:07:12 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TZWsE-0000go-Fl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 20:07:09 -0500 Original-Received: from eagle.jhcloos.com ([207.210.242.212]:42859) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TZWsE-0000gk-A5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 20:07:06 -0500 Original-Received: by eagle.jhcloos.com (Postfix, from userid 10) id 1CEF540107; Sat, 17 Nov 2012 01:06:39 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=jhcloos.com; s=eagle; t=1353114423; bh=LouSLNaBEBxocITZHHYlOrIKji39Ckpil0cvOzwb7JE=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:Date:Message-ID: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=F7U7Zx6cslmD8lwS7ByRQGPQr+Sn2TRmCu1wN7l0+b+DkTb2R9SL2v1etoHFGaWbE v/na4OF1InzPfrz1I1hILK5SlWERNAyec8F8pTuhMf1lfsHnsU3x/+aXHuFZFSMVcU YDfoFCWIqUawu7ENjW/IkzepXj43VYvSYKyHXWEI= Original-Received: by carbon.jhcloos.org (Postfix, from userid 500) id E653060119; Sat, 17 Nov 2012 00:58:50 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <50A57E1A.4040109@dancol.org> (Daniel Colascione's message of "Thu, 15 Nov 2012 15:43:22 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.130006 (Ma Gnus v0.6) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAQAgMAAABinRfyAAAACVBMVEX///8ZGXBQKKnCrDQ3 AAAAJElEQVQImWNgQAAXzwQg4SKASgAlXIEEiwsSIYBEcLaAtMEAADJnB+kKcKioAAAAAElFTkSu QmCC Copyright: Copyright 2012 James Cloos OpenPGP: ED7DAEA6; url=http://jhcloos.com/public_key/0xED7DAEA6.asc OpenPGP-Fingerprint: E9E9 F828 61A4 6EA9 0F2B 63E7 997A 9F17 ED7D AEA6 Original-Lines: 18 X-Hashcash: 1:30:121117:emacs-devel@gnu.org::wYVVSyJqOfmPVbJC:00000000000000000000000000000000000000000LieVy X-Hashcash: 1:30:121117:dancol@dancol.org::5AZAK/qPLLIMhqL2:0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000GVaXw X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 207.210.242.212 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:154891 Archived-At: >>>>> "DC" == Daniel Colascione writes: DC> In fact, I really don't see why file:// URLs should go through DC> url-handlers.el at all. A file URL should be a simple pass-through DC> to the normal file handler machinery, yes? Only file:/// or file://localhost/ should point to the local filesystem. file://example.org/foo.bar is a valid uri to some resource on example.org using some (unspecified) access method. Whether emacs still should handle URIs of that form, and if so how, are /interesting/ questions. (Back in the day, ftp /was/ the correct answer. Perhaps not any more?) -JimC -- James Cloos OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6