Re: [cpp-netlib-devel] Uring over here

[K. G. <kim...@gm...>]

Hi Glyn,

On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 14:23, Glyn Matthews <gly...@gm...> wrote:
>
>> There were also some implicit assumptions that the URI was for HTTP,
>> with path normalization, etc. I've removed that, so that clients will
>> need to translate empty path to "/" if necessary, and the same with
>> the port number.
>
> Do you still intend to keep the host/port in the fusion map?  How do you
> intend to deal with URIs like this:
>
> file:///home/user/myfile.txt
> mailto:som...@ex...

Yeah, I've been wondering the same thing lately... I'm afraid to even
suggest subtyping of some kind :-)

>From what I've gathered from the RFC and other places, everything
after the scheme prefix is scheme-specific, so I don't know if it
makes sense to try and parse differently-schemed URIs the same way at
all.

- Kim