Re: [Plastic-devs] file-scheme URLs again

[Mark T. <m.b...@br...>]

On Wed, 10 May 2006, Thomas Boch wrote:

> Mark,
> 
> That's very annoying indeed.
> I think that PLASTIC-aware Java applications should still be able to
> deal with file URLs of the form "file://localhost/path" as those URLs
> are perfectly valid. Thus, the workaround #1 seems indispensable IMHO.

Yes, that's true.  I suppose that we stick with our decision that 
PLASTIC messages ought always to contain legal URLs, and all 
applications must be able to deal with them; however we might
informally advise authors of non-java PLASTIC applications that they
may have more luck communicating with (poorly-written) java ones 
if they are a bit flexible about the URLs they can accept.

Mark

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