Hi,

On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, David Faure wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 22, 1999 at 01:30:52AM +0100, Torben Weis wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > >From what I heared from windows users you are making your life too easy
> > :-)
> > 
> > In one of the mails I got somebody told me, that host OR share may
> > have defaults. I hope that somebody tells me that this is wronge, because
> > the default host is easy to describe: Just dont use //
> > 
> > samba:/share/path
> > 
> > But what to do if the share has a default ?
> > 
> > smb://host/xyz
> > 
> > may be the default share with host xyz or the share xyz with no special
> > path. That is damn ugly!
> Then it could be smb://host/share/xyz with share optionnal
> so that's smb://host//xyz  for a default share
>       and smb://host/share for a default 

Two times: //
I knew there were some ugly details ....

> (Never heard of default shares, BTW...)
> 
> > But perhaps my information is wrong. In addition I heared that they have
> > workgroups which are somehow represented, too .....
> A workgroup could be a configuration item, like it is in Windows.
> Except that you don't have to reboot when you change it ;)
> 
> > It may be more tricky then you think.
> I can see that, now ;)
> 
> > On your topic David:
> > 
> > Our problem WAS to discuss how to handle URLs like //www.kde.org.
> > I dont see any open points here anymore.
> Well, what do I answer to M. Smith ?
> That it will be supported in 2.0, not in 1.1.1 ?
> [because you add it to KURL]

Lets put it this way: It is NOT a sever bug. It is the first time
that we get such a report and I personally NEVER saw such an URL in
real live. So we can say: It is a feature and 1.1.1 is for bug fixes and
not for features.

For 2.0 the clean approach is KURL. I think we should not touch KDE 1.1
code to get this working. Except for accepting it as users input
of course. Everything else would mean: hacking in old KURL: baehh!

Bye
Torben
 
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