2009/6/8 Sahoo <[email protected]>

> Stuart McCulloch wrote:
>
>>
>> I guess I'm not seeing why you want to use the reference: scheme with
>> non-file URLs?
>>
>> do you just want to avoid copying the remote content locally or is there
>> another reason?
>>
>>
> Good question. I want to modify the content as it is read. e.g., I want to
> process the MANIFEST.MF by having my own URL handler for a custom protocol.
> All these work as long as I don't use reference scheme.
>

Ah, ok - I think I understand now.

You want to have "reference:" in the URL and have Felix ignore it for
non-"file:" schemes.
ie. log a warning / info / debug and continue as if the URL was not a
"reference:" instead
of throwing an exception as it currently does.

I was confused by the subject line, which suggested you wanted to apply the
"reference:"
semantics (ie. not copying the contents but accessing it directly) to
non-"file:" schemes.

Changing it from an exception to a message is OK with me - anyone else want
to chip in?

Thanks,
> Sahoo
>

-- 
Cheers, Stuart

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