Re: paths are sensative to double separators

[Sebastian Rose <sebastian_rose@gmx.de>]

Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> writes:
>     ssh://user@host//foo        The file `foo' at the file system root.
>
> This interpretation of URIs is not specific to `hg://' URIs, so if we do
> something that parses this sort of double-slash path in the URL library,
> it may be nice if we enable it at least for the first path delimiting
> slash after the URI authority for most schemes.  Or at least if we can
> make it configurable which schemes support this sort of thing.  A list
> of URI schemes that support this sort of path-parsing would be really
> nice to have as a customizable option :-)

+1

Accepting URIs is the standard everywhere.

Far the most applications accept URIs. Either a path is absolute,
relative or an URI. It should be supported by default.

  Sebastian