On 2017-05-02 05:05, Jon Turney wrote:
On 02/05/2017 08:28, Åke Rehnman wrote:
On 2017-05-01 22:45, Jon Turney wrote:
I'm pretty sure I've done that in the past, so I think it already
works. The form of file: URL required might not be strictly correct,
though, (I think file:////server/pathname/ ?)
I can't see how to get a file:// URL for a local directory to parse
correctly, though.
URLs are like http://host/path - file://host/path; if no host is given,
localhost is assumed in http:///path and file:///path
file:/// is the local root but some browsers accept just / e.g. lynx
on Cygwin and Linux - useful to test this stuff, as GUI browsers look
up URL history for completions.
Most Windows browsers require the drive at the start of the path so
should accept file:///d|/ (HTML originally allowed ":" only after the
proto, and before the password and port in
proto://[[[user][:pswd]@]host[:port]]/path
so d| was required but that was relaxed in IE, and later other browsers
followed), so likely file:///C:/, just C:, maybe C:/, rarely or never /.