Re: [HtmlUnit] Re: HtmlUnit-develop digest, Vol 1 #64 - 6 msgs

[Christian S. <chr...@ne...>]

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.
>