Re: [Refdb-users] About the AV and L1 fields

[Torsten B. <br...@ph...>]

Hallöchen!

Markus Hoenicka writes:

> Torsten Bronger writes:
>
>> Are pubinfo and libinfo inextricably intertwined or perfectly
>> separated?
>
> They are supposed to be treated separately. Your example helped to
> fix two unrelated bugs which caused the behaviour you saw.

Thank you!

> [...]
>
> [...] However, there is one thing to keep in mind. The current
> implementation uses a simple check for "file://" at the start of
> each link to make sure a libinfo link is an URL pointing to a file
> resource owned by the user, and not a public URL accessible via
> http or ftp. That is, libinfo links using any protocol other than
> "file://" or none at all end up being added as public links. This
> code has been added too long ago to exactly remember why it was
> added. It now looks a little strange to me, and I'm open to
> suggestions whether or not to remove this restriction.

In my opinion, it should be removed.  If a private link is turned
into a public one implicitly, this is a source of irritation.

Tschö,
Torsten.

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