From: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>, 6339@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#6339: url-filename => "/c:/some/file.txt"
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2011 02:02:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAeL0SQzO0Y_9XPH-nyYchta5ri2=LT8iPZGjWyUmkKM0BbbBA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2ty81ld74.fsf@igel.home>
On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 01:42, Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> If you interpret the local part as an absolute
> file name you have to prepend a slash after decomposing. If not, then
> file:///etc/hosts wouldn't work as probably intended.
Of course. But that's not the point. The point is that how do you
interpret the local part is only important *after* decomposing the
URI. It's not url-generic-parse-url's task to do any interpretation.
Its docstring says just this:
Return an url-struct of the parts of url.
The CL-style struct contains the following fields:
TYPE USER PASSWORD HOST PORTSPEC FILENAME TARGET ATTRIBUTES FULLNESS.
It says nothing of interpreting any of it, and specifically FILENAME,
POSIX-style. And if it does interpret it POSIX-style it is wreaking
havoc with Windows file: URIs (that's the whole point of this bug
report).
So, of course I agree with you when you say "If you interpret the
local part as an absolute file name you have to prepend a slash after
decomposing.", or more precisely, with what Lennart said previously:
> This is not about absolute path in the platform syntax. It is an
> absolute path as understood as part of an URL. That has to be
> translated to a platform path.
But this discussion is not about how to use the decomposed URI, is
about whether the decomposition is correct, or buggy (and so should be
fixed). I think the RFCs (the one I quoted and the ones you quoted)
show clearly that the current decomposition is erroneous, though
convenient for POSIX systems.
At this point, I can see only two options:
- Fix the bug, and fix also the places where the return value of
url-generic-parse-url / url-filename is assumed to be a POSIX absolute
path.
- Leave it as is, and implement some ad hoc hack to make it work with
Windows file: URIs.
Juanma
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-25 0:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-03 2:38 bug#6339: url-filename => "/c:/some/file.txt" Lennart Borgman
2010-06-03 11:13 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-07-26 11:50 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-07-26 12:00 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-08-01 18:46 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-08-02 7:51 ` Michael Albinus
2011-09-21 20:28 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-21 22:21 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-09-21 22:31 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-09-21 22:45 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-09-21 22:51 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-09-21 22:59 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-09-21 23:15 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-09-21 23:18 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-09-21 23:32 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-09-21 23:37 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-09-21 23:46 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-09-22 0:32 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-09-22 0:40 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-09-22 0:59 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-09-22 1:07 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-09-22 1:14 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-09-22 9:52 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-10-06 5:09 ` Kevin Rodgers
2011-10-06 11:56 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-10-06 12:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-06 13:40 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-10-06 14:24 ` Jason Rumney
2011-10-06 14:30 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-10-06 14:38 ` Jason Rumney
2011-10-06 14:49 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-10-06 15:08 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-10-06 15:08 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-10-06 15:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-06 15:56 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-10-06 16:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-06 16:54 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-10-06 21:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-24 3:35 ` Jason Rumney
2011-09-24 8:59 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-09-24 9:06 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-09-24 11:53 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-09-24 21:56 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-09-24 23:42 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-09-25 0:02 ` Juanma Barranquero [this message]
2011-09-24 9:46 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-09-24 12:28 ` Richard Stallman
2012-05-09 9:04 ` Chong Yidong
2012-05-09 11:52 ` Juanma Barranquero
2012-05-10 14:15 ` Chong Yidong
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