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

[Gilles D. <gr...@sc...>]

According to Lachlan Andrew:
> On Wed, 11 Sep 2002 05:06, you wrote:
> > > 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?

That sounds like a great idea to me.  Would you be willing to implement
it?  If you can provide patches, I can make sure they make it into the
CVS tree.

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Gilles R. Detillieux              E-mail: <gr...@sc...>
Spinal Cord Research Centre       WWW:    http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/
Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba  Winnipeg, MB  R3E 3J7  (Canada)