[Swift-devel] URIs in mappers

[Mihael Hategan]

On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 19:35 +0000, Ben Clifford wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Mihael Hategan wrote:
> > > 
> > > file://localhost/etc/group dies like this:
> > 
> > Shouldn't that be file:////etc/group?
> 
> localhost or empty host component are the same, according to RFC 1738.
> 
> file://localhost/etc/group should behave the same as file:///etc/group 
> (which worked in my test)

I shall then update things to do that.

> 
> That document is not particularly explicit as to how the path component is 
> to be interpreted. The interpretation I've always seen (eg. Windows and OS 
> X command-line launchers, globus-url-copy) is that file: URL paths are 
> relative to / so I would expect file:///etc/group to work (which it did) 
> and also file://localhost/etc/group to also work (which it did not).

Actually GridFTP considers relative paths to be relative to CWD
(typically ~). And http servers have that relative to the webroot. So
I'm not sure we should force all paths to be absolute if the
implementations think otherwise.