Re: URIs vs. half-baked URIs [glib PATCH]

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 08:59:11AM -0700, Darin Adler wrote:
> On Friday, August 3, 2001, at 05:57  PM, Alex Larsson wrote:
> 
> > +    uri = g_strconcat ("file://", utf8_filename, NULL);
> 
> Is it better to use file:///etc rather than file:/etc (you have to chose 
> one as the canonical form when writing a function like this)?

  The canonical form is definitely
     file:///path

actually a contraction for 
     file://localhost/path

also note taht on Windows the path will start at index 8 in the URI
while it does start at index 7 everywhere else.
Last but not least I think that 

   file:/path

 is a valid URI but one with an opaque part, not an hierachical one,
i.e. from an URI perspective there is no path in this URI (interpretation
of "/path" is left to the software handling the "file" protocol), 
and you can't expand URI-References using this URI as the base
(../path2 has no meaning when starting from file:/path while it does when
 starting from file:///path ...). So avoid it and rewrite it if you find it !

Daniel

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