Re: new module: (web client)

[Andy Wingo]

On Tue 19 Jul 2011 09:51, Peter Brett <address@hidden> writes:

> address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>> What if URI is file://foo?
>
> Per RFC 1630 & RFC 1738, a file URL takes the form:
>
>   file://host/path
>
> For local files, the HOST part is elided:
>
>   file:///path
>
> So IMHO the posted code isn't *wrong* per se. ;-)

In that it specifies "foo" as the host.

file:///path appears to be invalid according to RFC3986, as the `host'
part is not optional if // follows the scheme.  However,
file:///etc/hosts is used as an example in the RFC.  I'm not sure what
to think here.

What is clear is that file:///foo is definitely a "normal" URI, in
practice, so we should probably interpret ://[/?#] as indicating no
authority, instead of being invalid.  I have done this in stable-2.0.

Andy
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