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List:       kfm-devel
Subject:    Re: Fwd: kfm not resolving URI correctly
From:       Alex Zepeda <garbanzo () hooked ! net>
Date:       1999-03-21 23:58:14
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On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, David Faure wrote:

> > However, I want you to know that the issue is still valid if the user chooses
> > the URL stated above in the location box.
> Well, theorically yes. But who will enter '//www.kde.org' instead of
> 'www.kde.org' ? It's longer, and nobody knows about that strange way of
> writing an URL. One must be a RFC addicted to know that.

Yes, and who thought that anyone would enter say a 5000 character
username, certianly not the SLMail authors.

> So I'm ok for handling such links, but not such users' entry.
> 
> What's more, at some point, we might want to handle //server as a samba
> server - which is not in the URL RFC, so .... ;)

Well then another way should be thought of to handle them.  'Sides BNC (I
think that's what they're caled) use two backslashes so it's \\host\share
not //host/share.  Even smbclient and sharity lite do it with backslashes.

- alex

You better believe that marijuana can cause castration.  Just suppose your
girlfriend gets the munchies!

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