KURL::isLocalFile uses gethostname

[Waldo Bastian]

On Thursday 01 May 2003 02:07, Dawit A. wrote:
> May I inquire what the purpose of adding code that performs hostname
> lookups in KURL::isLocalFile is ?  Is it for the sake of compatibility with
> the XDND spec. ?  

Yes, it is.

> Every implementation I have seen completely ignores the
> host portion of a file URL even if one is specified. Try
> file://www.kde.org/usr/local/src/ in Mozilla or Opera for example.  

That's their problem really.

> I think
> the cost of that gethostname however rare it might be encountered is
> completely unnecessary. 

Whenever it gets encountered it is necessary, which won't be very often.

> But then again it is no secret that I think there
> is a lot of things wrong with KURL. Oh well...

Cheers,
Waldo
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