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-----Background----- In Windows, a UNC path to a directory looks like this (see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/311079): \\server\share\path According to the file URI spec, Windows UNC paths should be accepted as file urls if they are entered like this: file:///server/share/path See http://udk.openoffice.org/cpp/man/spec/uris.html, last section, "Hosts"; Note however there is a typo in the spec--it says file://somewhere/somedir/file.txt but should say file:///somewhere/somedir/file.txt, with 3 slashes after the "file:". UNC's paths however have long been problematic in OOo. See: http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?p=196522 http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=9018 http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=13148 http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=51026 http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=53184 http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=56868 http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=72031 http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=72864 http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=73620 Part of the problem would seem to be that in OOo's implementation of file URL's, it cannot be unambiguously determined if the first component of the URL refers to a server or to a directory. For example, in file:///part1/part2/part3 part1 could refer to the directory /part1 on the local files system, or it could refer to the server part1 on the local network. -----The Proposal----- The submitter proposes that OOo's implementation of UNC file URL's be modified so it can be unambiguously determined if the first part of the path is a local directory or a network server. There are a multitude of syntaxes that could be used. For example: file:///server:share/path file:///server:/share/path file:///server//share/path file:///server/share:path file:///server:share:path file:///server:share:/path file:///server/share:/path What should not be used however, is the current ambiguous implementation file:///server/share/path The author of this proposal has no preference for syntax. Note however that Microsoft's document http://support.microsoft.com/kb/311079 discusses how Netware shares are parsed, and this may enter into the decision. Linux, Solaris and Samba considerations may also enter into the decision. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
