not sure if that matters, but I am just doing some custom XML parsing
with Xerces, in the course of which I had to resolve a file by supplying
an URL to the local file system. After some trial and error, I found
that URLs of the form "file:mylocalfile.xml" did the job, whereas
"file://mylocalfile.xml" failed.
InputSource in = new InputSource("file:dtw.xml");
Mike Bowler wrote:
> Brad Clarke wrote:
>
>> Best I can find is http://www.w3.org/Addressing/rfc1738.txt section
>> 3.10. It's not very descriptive though
>
>
> That document says:
>
> The file URL scheme is unusual in that it does not specify an
> Internet protocol or access method for such files; as such, its
> utility in network protocols between hosts is limited.
>
> Which would seem to imply that there isn't a portable way of specifying
> a file url. I would hope that this is wrong but I haven't found
> anything that defines the spec for file://
>
> Now this doesn't mean that I can't add support for loading files off the
> file system but it does mean that this support won't be via file urls.
> One option that I've been tossing around is mapping http urls to the
> file system. For example, you would be able to tell HtmlUnit that any
> request to http://foo.com/bar/* would map to d:\source\foo and then you
> would write your code to access http://foo.com/bar/whatever.
>
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