goran.krampe at bluefish.se wrote:

> For example, a file URL should ALWAYS have two slashes after the scheme
> name and should ALWAYS include the hostname/"localhost" or "" - which
> leads to these three variants:
> 
> file:///
> file://myhost.domain.com/
> file://localhost/
> 
> That is at least how I interpret it.

Let's not forget that you can have relative URIs like 'dir/file.txt' 
that can be resolved against an absolute URI. You can resolve relative 
paths against http, file or any other scheme.

JMTCW

Michael