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

[Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>]

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
> 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.

Thanks. I also think the first form is a bit better since

1) It is used by at least Firefox. They are big in this area...
2) It may be slightly easier to handle since it is more like http:// etc.

So I propose we change this.