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At 4:54 AM -0400 10/16/02, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> Interesting, RFC 1738 which is referenced from 2396 describes the
>file scheme as:
>
> A file URL takes the form:
> file://<host>/<path>
>
> which would exclude
> file:/<path>
1738 allows file:///home/users/elharo/index.html because section 3.10
states "As a special case, <host> can be the string 'localhost' or
the empty string; this is interpreted as `the machine from which the
URL is being interpreted'."
However, I can't make this square with the BNF grammar in 2396.
> Is there someone working on new revisions of the file scheme at the IETF ?
>Did I simply miss a new RFC superceeding 1738 ? There is quite some confusion
>around all those issues.
>
I thought this is what the absolute path in
hier_part = ( net_path | abs_path ) [ "?" query ]
abs_path = "/" path_segments
is for in 2396.
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