- From: Henrik Frystyk Nielsen <frystyk@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 19:13:27 -0500
- To: www-lib@w3.org
- To: Klaus Weide <kweide@tezcat.com>
Klaus Weide wrote: > > !> On windows the format is rather strange format which seems to work in most > !> browsers: > !> > !> file:/C:/tmp/irc.txt > > That should be regarded as just an incomplete form for > file://localhost/C:/tmp/irc.txt. > > Lynx uses the forms with file://localhost/ as the primary internal > representation, and tries to convert other forms that may be encountered > to it. If the Library has made a different decision, it should at least > regard the forms with explicit //localhost/ as equivalent. (I haven't > checked whether it does.) Right - libwww has handled file://localhost/bla and file:/bla for a long time but didn't get the "C:" weirdoes in until recently (they really do look ugly, don't they?) -- Henrik Frystyk Nielsen, World Wide Web Consortium http://www.w3.org/People/Frystyk
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