Re: [Pt-framework-general] Pt::System::Url

[Stephan B. <st...@s1...>]

On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 8:11 PM, Marc Dürner <mar...@go...>wrote:

> Thanks, that is very cool ! The current Url class is something we
> inherited and really is
> very unsatisfying.
>

Might it be possible to replace the current impl entirely, possibly changing
the API of the new one a bit for backwards compatibility?


> The concept of Uri's is very general and could even describe resources
> that have nothing
> to do with system resources like files or memory.
>

FWIW: i fought with this same question in libs11n and decided that URLs are
not network-specific (i.e. does not belong in the "net" package). Though the
idea of URL originated with a network, a "uniform resource locator" could
also refer to books in a library.

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