Translation of \\foo\bar links into smb://foo/bar links

[Stephan Kulow]

Am Wednesday 19 January 2005 01:07 schrieb Scott Wheeler:
> On Tuesday 18 January 2005 22:00, Richard Smith wrote:
> 
> > > A URL pointing at a file should never start with \\, right? So, why
> > > couldn't you test on that?
> >
> > # mkdir '/\\server\share\path\Functional Spec.doc'
> > $ konqueror 'file:///\\server\share\path\Functional Spec.doc'
> >
> > Works for me. Takes me to /\\server\share\path\Functional Spec.doc/, just
> > as it should.
> 
> That's nice, I'm quite certain you've found the common case.
> 
> Guess what "mkdir '/http:'" does?  I guess you're for getting rid of all of 
> that parsing too since 'http:' is a perfectly valid folder name?  ;-)

He talked about file:///\\server - there is a difference to http:/ here

Greetings, Stephan