- From: John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>
- Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 11:36:23 -0500
- To: Charles Lindsey <chl@clerew.man.ac.uk>
- Cc: URI <uri@w3.org>
Charles Lindsey scripsit: > If the authority identifies a host (e.g. e domain name with a A record, > or some local name known from /etc/hosts) Well, Internet Explorer interprets file://foo/bar/baz as the UNC name \\foo\bar\baz, which strikes me as extremely sensible, and I wish every browser on Windows did it. (Chrome does, Firefox doesn't.) Technically "foo" is not a hostname but the published name of an externally exposed portion of a file tree. > then the question is whether the open command in that host understands > "blah-blah-blah". No doubt, but how does one find out? Lynx uses anonymous FTP if the hostname is not empty or "localhost"; is that conformant, given that anonymous FTP typically has its own root? -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org http://ccil.org/~cowan The penguin geeks is happy / As under the waves they lark The closed-source geeks ain't happy / They sad cause they in the dark But geeks in the dark is lucky / They in for a worser treat One day when the Borg go belly-up / Guess who wind up on the street.
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