- From: Dave Thaler <dthaler@microsoft.com>
- Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 17:20:03 +0000
- To: Matthew Kerwin <matthew@kerwin.net.au>, t.petch <ietfc@btconnect.com>
- CC: "uri@w3.org" <uri@w3.org>, IETF Apps Discuss <apps-discuss@ietf.org>
On 25 September 2014 18:54, t.petch <ietfc@btconnect.com> wrote: > I do use file:/// most days of the week in the flavour used by IE and > would be happy to work to see it standardised; which then requires a WG > to show sufficient interest, or an AD to feel motivated to take it on > (which you also know:-). Personally, I'd love to see it deprecated and replaced by something more useful/interoperable. file: has problems where today it won't even interoperate between two machines (because of different interpretations of percent-encoded octets), so is only safe for use for files on the local system or ASCII-only file paths. If someone wants to write a draft on file: usage and the problems with it, some useful source material is on Dave Risney's blog at: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2006/12/06/file-uris-in-windows.aspx (and a few of the comments at the bottom of it). I might even be convinced to help co-author such a draft if someone else took the lead. -Dave
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