Re: [Vimprobable-users] Improve handling of file parameters

[Morgan H. <mt...@gm...>]

Hey Hannes,

Just wanted to follow up on this...

On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 2:49 AM, Hannes Schüller <ha...@yl...> wrote:

> Morgan Howe <mt...@gm...> wrote:
> > 1) Check if it's a search engine
> > 2) If not a search engine, look for "://", if found, trust the user.
> > 3) Else, check if it's a file and if so, build the file:// URI
> > 4) Else, check (again) if it's a search engine
> > 5) Else, prefix with "http://" and attempt to open.
> >
> > Due to the order of the evaluation, the issue you mentioned originally
> > should not be a problem.
>
> Actually, this is exactly the main issue I tried explaining initially:
> the policy change to give precedence to local files over URLs.


So is this acceptable to be merged then? The only conflict case remaining
is a local file, in the current directory, with the exact same name as the
domain you'd potentially like to visit. In such case, 'vp2
http://www.example.com' rather than 'vp2 www.example.com' is an easy and
obvious workaround. This seems like reasonable behavior, and I don't see
any other way of handling it short of what you said with actually probing
for a connection or checking DNS.

Regards,
Morgan