Re: file: URIs without host

Dan Connolly scripsit:

> That case is why we have relative URI references; drop the scheme
> altogether if you want to refer to "nearby" things.
> 
> If that won't work in this case, could you elaborate on why not?

IIUC, the problem is that there are two kinds of neighborhood here: the local file system
neighborhood and the local (= current) Web server neighborhood.  Unfortunately, it
isn't allowed to have separate base URIs for the file: and http: schemes.

-- 
John Cowan  <cowan@ccil.org>  http://ccil.org/~cowan
Micropayment advocates mistakenly believe that efficient allocation of
resources is the purpose of markets.  Efficiency is a byproduct of market
systems, not their goal.  The reasons markets work are not because users
have embraced efficiency but because markets are the best place to allow
users to maximize their preferences, and very often their preferences are
not for conservation of cheap resources.  --Clay Shirkey

Received on Thursday, 4 October 2007 13:52:12 UTC