From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: file:///c:/nxdist/tut/tutorials.html or file:c:/nxdist/tut/tutorials.html? Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 12:17:06 +0900 Message-ID: <873a8ow0jx.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <44502.130.55.118.19.1248304745.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1248319231 2333 80.91.229.12 (23 Jul 2009 03:20:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 03:20:31 +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 05:20:23 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 1MTor0-0004Me-Pi for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Jul 2009 05:20:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42846 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MToqz-0000wi-QQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 23:20:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MToqv-0000vD-FE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 23:20:17 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MToqr-0000tY-2g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 23:20:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=59544 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MToqq-0000tV-Ry for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 23:20:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mtps01.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.223]:49999) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MToqq-0002aO-Ey for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 23:20:12 -0400 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mtps01.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3162E1535AF; Thu, 23 Jul 2009 12:20:11 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 354271A3002; Thu, 23 Jul 2009 12:17:06 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 8.0.12-devo-585 under 21.5 (beta29) "garbanzo" 5bbff3553494 XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) 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:113031 Archived-At: Lennart Borgman writes: > On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 1:19 AM, Davis Herring 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. = =A0But > > 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!)