Re: URL filename syntax?

[Ehud Karni]

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On Tue, 15 Apr 2003 21:19:15 +0200, address@hidden (Kai 
=?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) wrote:
> 
> Are you talking about my suggestion of changing ftp://address@hidden//foo
> to mean the same as ftp://address@hidden/%2Ffoo, instead of
> ftp://address@hidden/foo?

No. I'm talking about the general principal - any legal URL should work
without modification. If `wget' can transfer it, Emacs should be able
to edit it in a buffer (It may be read only).
e.g. https://www.name.tld/foo/bar.html 

> It's not quite clear what you want:
> 
> (a) ftp://address@hidden/%2Ffoo must have the standard meaning, or
> (b) ftp://address@hidden//foo must have the standard meaning (ie, same as
>     ftp://address@hidden/foo), or
> (c) both.
> 
> I agree on (a).  But for (b) I'd say the added convenience outweighs
> the slight incompatibility with the standard.

(a) must be supported (any legal URL should work).
(b) MAY be supported - improvements are welcomed.

> (And Tramp is incompatible with the standard anyway, since it mostly
> supports URL schemes like ssh, scp, su, smb, and rsync, which are not
> standardized.)

If there is no standard - there is no incompatibility.
If there will be standard for any of these methods - it should be
supported (note that the ftp standard is NOT supported).

Ehud.


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