Re: [Plastic-devs] Re: [Plastic-user] TOPCAT v2.1 release

[John T. <jon...@gm...>]

FWIW I believe that the localhost bit is optional, and you could do
file://localhost/path/file
or
file:///path/file

John

Mark Taylor wrote:
> On Wed, 10 May 2006, Johan Lindroos wrote:
>
>   
>> Hello Mark,
>>
>> I got the same problem in windows, but the problem is not due to the 
>> "8char" directories but the localhost part, that does not work well, 
>> when removing the localhost from the url before accessing the temporary 
>> file it works well.
>>
>> Best Regards,
>>   Johan
>>
>> Johan Lindroos, Software Engineer, SAMPO ESO - Data Analysis Project
>> P.O.Box 405, 02101 ESPOO, Finland Tel.+358-9-4572121, Mob.+358-50-3819725, Fax. +358-9-4572302
>> CSC - Scientific Computing Ltd. http://www.csc.fi Email: Joh...@cs...
>>     
>
> oh lordy... the URLs generated by TOPCAT didn't used to contain the
> localhost part in 'file:'-type URLs, but I've done work to insert it
> following discussions on this list last month about correctly 
> formed URLs, in accordance with RFC 1738.  Now it seems that they 
> are not being parsed correctly.
>
> Can you tell me exactly what is failing when trying to handle such URLs?
>
> thanks
>
> Mark
>
>