- From: Charles Lindsey <chl@clerew.man.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2011 12:02:57 -0000
- To: URI <uri@w3.org>
On Mon, 03 Jan 2011 14:38:05 -0000, John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>
wrote:
> 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.
>
If the authority identifies a host (e.g. e domain name with a A record, or
some local name known from /etc/hosts) then the question is whether the
open command in that host understands "blah-blah-blah". I think any
standard should forbid anything other than such domain/host names.
Anything else would be rgearded as a 'local convention' outwith the
standard - and good luck to you if it happens to work in your environment.
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