Re: file:///c:/nxdist/tut/tutorials.html or file:c:/nxdist/tut/tutorials.html?

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>]

Lennart Borgman writes:
 > On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 1:19 AM, Davis Herring<herring@lanl.gov> wrote:
 > >> 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

Please refer to RFC 3986; it obsoletes 2396 (which updated both 1738
and 1808) and 1808, updates 1738, and is in fact also STD 66, which
gives you some idea of the importance of and general consensus on the
updates involved (STD 11 is *still* RFC 822, despite the subsequent
acceptance of both RFC 2822 and RFC 5322 as PROPOSED STANDARD and
DRAFT STANDARD respectively!)