- From: Larry Masinter <LMM@acm.org>
- Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 22:06:36 -0700
- To: "'Israel Viente'" <israel_viente@il.vio.com>, <uri@w3.org>
- Cc: "'John Cowan'" <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>
The 'file' scheme is terribly underspecified. Over the years, various persons have volunteered to write an update. Most recently, in March (http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/uri/2003Mar/0043.html) Dan Kohn and Paul Hoffman volunteered to scope the work and take on some of it, and on May 2 http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/uri/2003May/0016.html Paul said that it was on his schedule for "this weekend". Perhaps you could help them. My suggestion for a writeup of "file:" is that the document might - examine what various current URI interpreters do on various platforms (IE, Mozilla, Opera, Safari, Java, Perl on Windows 98/ME/2K/XP vs. Mac vs. Linux) - recommend common platform-independent practice I think this is the most practical guidance to give. It's not a good idea to try to get the browser makers to change much at this date, unless the intersection of 'what works' is empty. A little Google searching turned up some interesting references... http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.6/lib/URI/file.html http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/wss/wss/_ex ch2k_the_file_url_scheme.asp http://www.mozilla.org/quality/networking/testing/filetests.html Larry -- http://larry.masinter.net
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