- From: Irene Vatton <Irene.Vatton@inrialpes.fr>
- Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 11:03:43 +0100
- To: "Chris Beall" <Chris_Beall@prodigy.net>
- Cc: "Amaya users" <www-amaya@w3.org>
On Tuesday 21 February 2006 17:29, Chris Beall wrote:
> Amaya 8.8.4, Windows 98 SE
>
> Scenario:
>
> Open Amaya. On the 'Open' line, type file://A:/quicktest.html. Press
> Enter.
>
> Results:
> The Open line is changed to "c:\A:\quicktest.html". This is incorrect for
> 2 reasons:
> 1. Amaya has ADDED a disk ID to the front of the URL, for no reason.
> 2. Amaya has assumed that the disk ID should be "c:", which is wrong,
> since the user specified A:.
This problem is now fixed.
> Because the URL is invalid, Amaya starts an empty page. (Why does it not
> return a 404 error?)
We'll change that.
>
> I believe a correct implementation would internally strip the 'file://'
> from the line (leaving it unchanged on the 'Open' line), and pass the
> remainder to the OS. In the event the OS cannot find the file, an internal
> 404-error page would be displayed.
>
> Chris Beall
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Irène.
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