Filesystem paths

[Martin Pool]

On 28/04/2006, at 3:26 PM, Jan Hudec wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 15:26:51 -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).
>
> Windows themselves (MSIE) don't and Mozilla doesn't either, though  
> they
> both understand that notation.

Do you mean they don't translate : to |?

-- 
Martin