On Wed, 08 Sep 2004 18:34:03 +0100, graham graham@theseamans.net wrote:
Brion Vibber wrote:
Rowan Collins wrote:
On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 15:30:25 -0700, Brierley, Mike mbrierley@co.marin.ca.us wrote:
Ok two answers that sort of conflict...
Is it file:// or file:///
?
I'm 90% sure it's file:/// - if I only type two /s into mozilla, it adds the third one for me. Never understood *why* it needs three, but that just seems to be the way of it.
It does seem to prefer three. However this is easy to verify experimentally: try them and see what works.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
I always thought the base was two slashes (file://, like http://), the rest was the file path. If you have an absolute file path starting from the root it begins with /. So now you have 3 slashes in a row - nothing to do with mozilla, just part of the logic of it... No?
Graham
In Windows, it's written (for whatever reason) as file:///C:/foo/42/file. Though the Unix path name seems to make sense.
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