weis@stud.uni-frankfurt.de wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> A rewrite of KURL is needed anyway. Stefan ( the other one )
> wants to write a new IO Subsystem that can handle tars on ftp
> for example and stuff like that. While doing this we can
> try to do the encode/decode stuff as mentioned below.
> 
> Since encode/decode moves into KURL, every app should work
> find then.
> 
> But some problems are hard to solve. For example
> 
> file:/root may be a URL or it may be a directory file: in the
> current directory. This is not decideable => We assume a URL.
> If someone has such stupid filenames, he wants trouble.
> 
This one is definitly an URL, if the user has such files, he can
use ./file:/root, $HOME/file:/root or even file://$HOME/file%3A/root.
So, he has that many possibilities to describe the file he needs,
that he wouldn't mind. 
BTW: lynx couldn't handle my tests too :-)

Greets, Stephan