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

[Darin Adler <darin bentspoon com>]

On Friday, August 24, 2001, at 11:55  AM, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:

> The URI RFC (2396) says both forms are OK, so it's probably better to
> go with the simpler one. On the other hand, it's good to have code
> agree on what the canonical form is, so other code in gnome-vfs and
> nautilus that deals with canonical forms might have to special-case
> `file:' since you can't leave out the `//' for http: or ftp:, even
> when the host is `localhost'. I'd be a lot happier if you made that
> change throughout if you do it this way.

I'll make this commitment: Whatever we decide to do for glib, I'll make 
sure that gnome-vfs and Nautilus are updated to match (even if I have to 
do the work myself).

    -- Darin