Filesystem paths

[John Arbash Meinel]

Jan Hudec wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 15:11:27 -0500, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 02:02:58PM -0500 I heard the voice of
>> John Arbash Meinel, and lo! it spake thus:
>>> I think the reason for escaping the : is that it could be
>>> interpreted as a URL scheme.
>> I'd think it's more likely that it would be [attempted to be]
>> interpreted as a port.
> 
> Yes, I now vaguely recall already hearing that. Though of course since the
> 'c:' is in the first path component and not the host component (which is
> empty -- there are *3* /es at the begining), it actually can't be.
> 

I think we should support them. As in if we see a :, we don't complain.
But internally we should try and be consistent, and | seems to be fairly
common. (At least it is what urllib uses, which is good enough for me).

John
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