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[Garry T. Williams]

On Sunday, May 29, 2022 10:48:21 AM EDT gene heskett wrote:
> On Sunday, 29 May 2022 10:22:24 EDT Garry T. Williams wrote:
> > On Thursday, May 26, 2022 1:14:53 PM EDT gene heskett wrote:
> > > geany, then saved it in /home/gene/Public/digikey.html since thats
> > > what it looks like. Firefox can't find it at
> > > file:///localhost/home/gene/Public/digikey.html
> > > 
> > > What did I do wrong?
> > 
> > The URL you want is file:///home/gene/Public/digikey.html
> 
> And that does work, but ONLY_IF_ you take out the third /, but in 
> displaying it, FF puts the third / back into the address bar, hit a 
> return with /// present in the address bar does NOT work here.

Well, I thought I knew what I was talking about, but I see that I
didn't.

    https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8089

That reference indicates that your original attempt should have been
valid.  It also indicates that my suggestion is equivalent to your
original.  Finally, it indicates "file:" followed by an absolute file
system path (in other words, omitting the two slashes resulting in
only one) is valid, too.

But for sure, the reference indicates that a "host" part must follow
only two slashes.

I tried all these possibilities with Chrome and validated the
reference above.  Only two slashes is invalid; one slash is OK; three
slashes are OK; your original attempt I validated as OK.

I guess the difference is Firefox versus Chrome.  I do not have
Firefox installed to test.

-- 
Garry T. Williams