[plt-scheme] Re: file: urls & their relation to path names

From: Robby Findler (robby at cs.uchicago.edu)
Date: Sat Jan 7 13:52:27 EST 2006

At Sat, 07 Jan 2006 11:34:28 -0500, Paul Schlie wrote:
> Although I may misunderstand, it would seem file://<some-path>
> is formally invalid regardless of the encoding of <some-path>
> in the absents of an explicitly specified authority; i.e.:

Yes, I think that's right. 2 slashes is not okay, but 3 and zero are
ok. I meant to put three in each of my examples.

Robby wrote:
>  file://%3f/etc/hosts

but I should have written:

  file:///%3f/etc/hosts

Robby


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