Re: Absolute "file:" URLs under Windows95

> From: "Henrik Frystyk Nielsen" <frystyk@microsoft.com>

> RFC 1738 has been updated by RFC 2396 but unfortunately neither have a
> very practical definition of file: URIs (and file: is kind of strange in
> the first place). Personally I like file:/D:/foo instead of file:///D:/foo
> as is in fact unambiguous (and legal) 

One or two slashes between file: and D: ? (I think two)

Well, it would be time to amend  RFC 2396 with a standard definition
(or maybe to put some 1st April RFC with other schemata!)

ciao ,.mau.

Received on Thursday, 9 March 2000 03:20:18 UTC