From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: file:///c:/nxdist/tut/tutorials.html or file:c:/nxdist/tut/tutorials.html? Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 01:22:56 +0200 Message-ID: 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=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1248304998 7278 80.91.229.12 (22 Jul 2009 23:23:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 23:23:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs-Devel devel To: herring@lanl.gov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 23 01:23:11 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 1MTl9R-0006HK-3Q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Jul 2009 01:23:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57174 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MTl9Q-0002ad-FK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:23:08 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MTl9K-0002W2-DS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:23:02 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MTl9F-0002PW-Qq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:23:02 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=39670 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MTl9F-0002P6-Kn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:22:57 -0400 Original-Received: from an-out-0708.google.com ([209.85.132.245]:58458) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MTl9F-0003TH-8t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:22:57 -0400 Original-Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id b6so528765ana.21 for ; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:22:56 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=Se+lz8wIIQ2KQyoZDnlVM+NmOn7ulb5esISDwV3WsDc=; b=JziqgM7F8mMB3qVVaL/l04pHus94WLjEDz6G7UjeMATi6QV0eXnq3rlcC6gyWnpjp+ 1u+cQ56HDcLm5VUISihm/BO6IWEVLruQAYI9DOnZCT4z1GqxZUrpRlzVea8WH2Eu7os+ uWnv52otb72DT2B+yfb2/TUfF5yZ092ENlDp0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=CqGywvPOhYSbuHcUiYNFIlQjTrIPbU04xliW0rxDgSlL6YXcxNXv8TXIwwv8kD7cf4 Fj0l5T0iUtXk5TR24z1ON6TJwxW0LUOd5K7FJwOM8Ji0egrn0L5PSp2+//rkXLe06DfI 7qGOu2plg8E9laTPCAZGnSwvfHBgRdfQYyCIk= Original-Received: by 10.100.107.8 with SMTP id f8mr1833491anc.197.1248304976553; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:22:56 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <44502.130.55.118.19.1248304745.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:113027 Archived-At: 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. =C2= =A0But > 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. =C2=A0And= 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 th= e > 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.