storage branch - remaining issues?

[Aaron Bentley]

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John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> I thought '..' was not allowed in urls.
> 
> I don't really care. I feel like the Transport layer is a nice
> centralized location where paths go through. Which means they can
> interpret the path, and everyone else can consider it a voodoo string.

That is really unhelpful for anyone who wants to manipulate the path.

> We could make Branch.open* be the conversion point, but if we are that
> deep, it is only 1 more step to get to Transport, since the first thing
> open() does is get_transport()

I've already said I'd be willing to do the convertion in get_transport.
 I am concerned that this may involve unicode decoding, and if so, we
don't have enough data to know what encoding the string is in.

Aaron
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