[htdig-dev] Re: ExternalTransport patch, and URL format

[Lachlan A. <lh...@ee...>]

On Wed, 11 Sep 2002 05:06, you wrote:

> Where did you get your code in June?  I fixed this
> problem in the CVS tree back on January 11/02.  You must
> have had an older snapshot.

Oops!  Yes, I was getting my directories confused.  I 
apologise for casting any aspersions...

> > The other problem is the format of "kurl"s, which use a
> > single '/' after the ':'.
>
> The proper fix would be in htcommon/URL.cc, where it
> handles parsing of URLs.  I think it has to deal with
> exceptions like this on a case by case basis.

Thanks for that.  I was thinking of having a list of known 
services, specifying the number of leading slashes, with 
default entries:
    mailto, news :		0
    http, ftp, most others :	2-or-more

When there are two-or-more slashes, the user and port will 
be parsed as currently.  Otherwise, it will all be treated 
as "path".

When an external transport mechanism is specified as, say,
'https' it will be added with "two slashes".  However, if 
it is specified as, say, "man:" or "help:/" or "https://" 
(with a colon), then the number of slashes can be specified 
explicitly.  That will avoid hard-coding the KDE stuff into 
htDig://

Does that sound feasible?

Thanks again for your feedback :)

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