A few thoughts about KUrl

[Thiago Macieira]

Jarosław Staniek wrote:
>> kurl.setPath("c:/") will be interpreted as kurl.setPath("/c:/") ? [no
>> in QUrl]
>
>How about using "%3A" instead of ':' ?

I don't think this is a good idea. Colons in pathnames are acceptable. But 
using %3A in a URL is equivalent to ':', so you'd just confuse other 
code.

Not to mention that it would break QUrl::toLocalFile().

>Then we'd have no problem in places where ':' is considered as a
> separator. Assume nobody should win32-specific absolute paths ("c:/")
> in portable code.

Separator?

>
>Let's see whether this could work...
>
> > Should KUrl("/") act as a relative path on windows ? (
> > KUrl("file:///C:/foo/bar") + KUrl("/") = KUrl("file:///C:/") ,
> > similar to "cd /" in windows console)
>
>Wouldn't using this side effect make the code unportable?

Do you mean KUrl("file:///C:/foo/bar").cd("/") -> "file:///C:/" ?
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