Re: URIs vs. half-baked URIs [glib PATCH]

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 12:05:11PM -0400, Alex Larsson wrote:
> I copied the current behaviour from gnome-vfs. Konqueror gives URIs like 
> "file:/home/devel/alexl/all_types.c", maybe we should too.

<alert cause="Spec violation" severity="grave">

  Well it's broken from the RFC 2396 because you can't compute URI
references from it, for example following .. from that URI has no
meaning per the spec.
     http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2396.html
     5. Relative URI References

 "The syntax for relative URI takes advantage of the <hier_part> syntax
  of <absoluteURI> (Section 3) in order to express a reference that is
  relative to the namespace of another hierarchical URI."

</alert>

  That's actually a serious brokenness and should be reported to the
Konqueror authors. I suck because I don't feel compelled to do this.

  At least for the Gnome project, please follow the standards and use
file:///home/devel/alexl/all_types.c , thanks.

Daniel

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