From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Davis Herring" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: file:///c:/nxdist/tut/tutorials.html or file:c:/nxdist/tut/tutorials.html? Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:19:05 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <44502.130.55.118.19.1248304745.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> References: Reply-To: herring@lanl.gov NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1248304771 6705 80.91.229.12 (22 Jul 2009 23:19:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 23:19:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs-Devel devel To: "Lennart Borgman" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 23 01:19:24 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MTl5o-00054F-4J for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Jul 2009 01:19:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37179 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MTl5n-0007Wc-E5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:19:23 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MTl5g-0007WI-Cj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:19:16 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MTl5b-0007Rh-FH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:19:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=60723 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MTl5b-0007RS-6V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:19:11 -0400 Original-Received: from proofpoint2.lanl.gov ([204.121.3.26]:60208) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MTl5a-0002nl-Jx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:19:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mailrelay1.lanl.gov (mailrelay1.lanl.gov [128.165.4.101]) by proofpoint2.lanl.gov (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n6MNJ5ng005326; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:19:05 -0600 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mailrelay1.lanl.gov (Postfix) with ESMTP id 970901618C9; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:19:05 -0600 (MDT) X-NIE-2-Virus-Scanner: amavisd-new at mailrelay1.lanl.gov Original-Received: from webmail1.lanl.gov (webmail1.lanl.gov [128.165.4.106]) by mailrelay1.lanl.gov (Postfix) with ESMTP id 843871618BC; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:19:05 -0600 (MDT) Original-Received: by webmail1.lanl.gov (Postfix, from userid 48) id 81DE71518033; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:19:05 -0600 (MDT) Original-Received: from 130.55.118.19 (SquirrelMail authenticated user 196434) by webmail.lanl.gov with HTTP; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:19:05 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.8-5.7.lanl5.newsieve X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=1.12.8161:2.4.5, 1.2.40, 4.0.166 definitions=2009-07-23_01:2009-07-20, 2009-07-23, 2009-07-22 signatures=0 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:113026 Archived-At: > The first form is used by Firefox, the second by Emacs. > > Are both correct, or? http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1738.txt says that the file URL scheme looks like file://host/path, where host may be empty to indicate localhost. But http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1808.txt says that you can have a relative file: URL (a "generic-RL") that just looks like file:path, although it says that the use of schemes with relative URLs is discouraged. And on Windows, the leading slash is not needed to tell whether a path is absolute or not because of the special status of the drive-letter-colon names. So... I think the first one is better, but it's not clear (to me) that the second is wrong. Davis -- This product is sold by volume, not by mass. If it appears too dense or too sparse, it is because mass-energy conversion has occurred during shipping.