[Q] Isn't 'file://foo/bar' asUrl supposed to give a relative FileUrl?

Lex Spoon lex at cc.gatech.edu
Wed Aug 6 18:36:26 UTC 2003


Markus Gaelli <gaelli at emergent.de> wrote:
> > > You mean a "relative url"? There is no such thing.
> Mmmh, but why is there an instance-variable called "isAbsolute" in 
> FileUrl?
> Should we get rid of that?

It's a useful extension.  Such a URL is not covered in the RFC's, but it
is useful and people do it.  It also means that a url like 'www.abc.com'
(also not in the RFC's) can be parsed as 'http://www.abc.com'.  

I didn't realize that a host was required for file url's.  It's almost useless,
especially for Squeak, but I guess it would better nice to support the standard here.


Lex



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