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

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 11:55:58AM -0700, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
> The URI RFC (2396) says both forms are OK, so it's probably better to

  Not at the same level

> go with the simpler one. On the other hand, it's good to have code

  No it's not an hierarchical URI and you can't compute relative
URI references from it

> 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.

  Please don't !!!!

Daniel

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