Filesystem paths

[Jan Hudec]

On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 16:35:26 +1000, Martin Pool wrote:
> 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 |?

Yes. Well, MSIE translates file: URLs to paths and understands both, so
one can't really tell which it prefers. And mozilla does not seem to
translate either to anything, so after all they seem both equally valid.

-- 
						 Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb at ucw.cz>
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