file:///

[Allan Sandfeld Jensen]

On Saturday 13 November 2004 14:56, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote:
> <veröffentlicht & per Mail versendet>
>
> Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > On Saturday 13 November 2004 12:57, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> >> On Saturday 13 November 2004 11:40, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote:
> >> > However, the preamble to rfc 2396bis says the specific schemes
> >> > described in rfc 1738 (the file: scheme is among them) will be updated
> >> > in separate documents. Does anybody know where the file: scheme was
> >> > updated?
> >>
> >> Didn't know about rfc2396bis, and I just found a file-scheme specific
> >> draft here:
> >>
> >> http://www.rnp.br/ietf/internet-drafts/draft-hoffman-file-uri-00.txt
> >>
> >> Haven't read it yet :-)
> >
> > And there is
> > http://www.rnp.br/ietf/internet-drafts/draft-hoffman-file-uri-01.txt
>
> This draft is next to useless. It merely describes the current situation,
> and furthermore contains typos. E.g.
>   file://usr/local/bin/
> is clearly and completely wrong. That should rather be
> file:///usr/local/bin/.
>
Which by the way beautyfully illustrates the visual clutter and usability 
problem with that

`Allan