On 2017-05-02 05:05, Jon Turney wrote: > On 02/05/2017 08:28, Åke Rehnman wrote: >> On 2017-05-01 22:45, Jon Turney wrote: > I'm pretty sure I've done that in the past, so I think it already > works. The form of file: URL required might not be strictly correct, > though, (I think file:////server/pathname/ ?) > I can't see how to get a file:// URL for a local directory to parse > correctly, though.
URLs are like http://host/path - file://host/path; if no host is given, localhost is assumed in http:///path and file:///path file:/// is the local root but some browsers accept just / e.g. lynx on Cygwin and Linux - useful to test this stuff, as GUI browsers look up URL history for completions. Most Windows browsers require the drive at the start of the path so should accept file:///d|/ (HTML originally allowed ":" only after the proto, and before the password and port in proto://[[[user][:pswd]@]host[:port]]/path so d| was required but that was relaxed in IE, and later other browsers followed), so likely file:///C:/, just C:, maybe C:/, rarely or never /. -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
