On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 03:25:15AM +0000, Norton, Mike via curl-users wrote: > If it's a "feature you're seldom interested in" then I don't see how you can > say the "benefits of supporting it are great". It seems to me you are > interested in accessing resources on the local disk, not specifically > interested in using the "file:" URI scheme per se. So it is that former that > is great, not the latter.
It's SMB support I'm not interested in these days, not local filesystem support. > I never once suggested removing the ability to use resources on the local > disk. I only (half-jokingly) suggested that supporting a particular URI > scheme for specifying such, when the meaning of that particular scheme could > be ambiguous, might be questionable. I'm not sure what alternative to the file: scheme such support would take. "curl groks those URLs" and file: is the URL for this. > And as I said, I am okay with the current answer. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: https://cool.haxx.se/list/listinfo/curl-library Etiquette: https://curl.haxx.se/mail/etiquette.html
