file:///

[Stephan Kulow]

Am Friday 12 November 2004 16:38 schrieb Jason Keirstead:
> This thread is confusing to me. Some people are griping with the cleanup by 
> saying it wouldn't be RFC compliant.
> 
> But half the URLs in KDE aren't RFC compliant anyways. Many IO Slaves do not 
> follow this scheme. By RFC, the URL for the settings IO slave at the root 
> should be settings:// or settings://localhost. Neither work. You can't have 
> more than 1 slash. The same can be said of print:/, fonts:/, audiocd:/, etc. 
> I don't see why file:/ should be treated any differently than a "File IO 
> slave".
Did you read the RFC? It only talks about a set of ~7 protocols that got specific
rules, all others are <protocol>:<protocol specific>

Greetings, Stephan