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List:       kfm-devel
Subject:    Re: Already Fixed Bugs
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () ens ! ascom ! ch>
Date:       1999-07-27 9:11:10
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Dawit Alemayehu wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > Dawit Alemayehu wrote:
> > 
> > > Anyways,  I have included the patch for anyone interested in giving \
> > > it a try. I really would appreciate the feedback.  I can also ask the \
> > > bug reporter to try the patch if he built KDE out of the source.  To \
> > > test the patch, please have look at
> > > 
> > > http://www.glinx.com/~hclsmith/
> > > 
> > > before and after you apply the patch. PLEASE NOTE that this patch is \
> > > only for KDE_1_1_BRANCH.  KURL in the head branch has been \
> > > re-designed ( much more cleanly I might add ).  However, it still \
> > > does not handle ( at least KURL by itself ) pages like the one \
> > > mentioned above.  But before fixing the one in the head branch, I \
> > > want to discuss the options as there are several available. This is \
> > > what I meant above by "it is an entirely different topic" above.
> > 
> > What is this patch supposed to fix?
> 
> This fixes bug#1556 ( http://bugs.kde.org/db/15/1556.html ).  The same \
> bug was was subject of a previous discussion and was originally reported \
> as bug#1472.  Here is a link to that thread \
> (http://lists.kde.org/?t=93031866600001&w=2&d=1&r=1). The best way to see \
> the bug is to browse the above link.  In that page you will see lots of \
> links with missing images.  This is caused by the above bug. Basically \
> the patch ONLY fixes KURL's inability to understand URL's that have no \
> protocol part ( http, ftp etc ).  Nothing more nothing less.

The problem seems to be that KURL is based on RFC1738 and doesn't know
about RFC1808 or RFC2396. We should fix KURL to be fully compliant with
these RFCs.

I'll fix this in the HEAD branch next week. 

Cheers,
Waldo
-- 
The "gui" in "Penguin" is pronounced "K-D-E"


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