- From: John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>
- Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 09:38:05 -0500
- To: Charles Lindsey <chl@clerew.man.ac.uk>
- Cc: URI <uri@w3.org>
Charles Lindsey scripsit:
> Put more simply, if you write file://host/blah-blah-blah, then if you
> write a POSIX open call open("blah-blah-blah", ...) then it ought to
> work, and you define the format of blah-blah-blah so that it is so. All
> you ahve to worry about then is where percent-coding is needed, and
> perhaps whether some relative URI is possible.
So far so good. The messy part is what the authority means when it is
neither empty nor "localhost", and clients differ widely in this respect.
--
And it was said that ever after, if any John Cowan
man looked in that Stone, unless he had a cowan@ccil.org
great strength of will to turn it to other http://ccil.org/~cowan
purpose, he saw only two aged hands withering
in flame. --"The Pyre of Denethor"
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