Re: [SQLObject] URI connection syntax, double slashes and relative pathnames on windows

[Jamie W. <ja...@sp...>]

This one time, at band camp, Oleg Broytmann wrote:
>On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 02:02:33PM +1000, Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
>> file:// URIs don't have a host component.
>
>   It does have. Try ftp://some.host/path/to/sub/dir in different
>browsers. Some recognize this as ftp:// URL, some ignore some.host
>part, some use some.host part as a relative path. Ambiguous. :(

file://, not ftp://.

But I re-read rfc 1738 and it turns out I was wrong; there is still a host
component, between the first pair of / and the next /, i.e. file:/// is an
absolute path and file://x/y is also the absolute path on server x.