Filesystem paths

[Robert Collins]

On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 15:26 -0500, John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> 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).

Theres a working group page I can't find right now that documents common
uses by browsers etc for file:///.... I think I linked to it here
before.

Rob
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