Re: UNC paths, glib, and the file chooser

[Sven Neumann <sven gimp org>]

Hi,

James Henstridge <james jamesh id au> writes:

> Internet Explorer canonicalises UNC paths to URIs as
> file://hostname/share/path, while mozilla canonicalises to
> file://///hostname/share/path.
>
> While the IE path is a bit shorter, the five-slash version probably
> follows the specs better

It's not only IE. GtkFileChooser on Win32 also seems to return
file://hostname/share/path URIs for files in UNC paths.


Sven