On 10/13/2016 10:35 AM, Damien Pollet wrote:
Could you give an example what the file:// URLs look like when they
contain a drive letter?
I'm afraid I don't have any Windows machines handy to see what Internet
Explorer does, but as far as I can tell an absolute URL compliant with
RFC 3986 might look something like
file:/c:/foo/bar
A relative URL that fits the URL syntax would be
file:c:/foo/bar
But I'm finding it difficult to tell precisely how RFCs 1738 and 3986
currently interact.
The discussion in this proposed RFC is somewhat interesting:
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-appsawg-file-scheme-02, as it
directly addresses Windows file naming. In appendix B.2, it says
"When mapping a DOS- or Windows-like file path to a URI, use the drive
letter (e.g. "c:") as the first path segment. Some implementations
leave the leading slash off before the drive letter. "
and appendix C.1 deals with DOS file paths.
I hope this is more helpful than it is confusing.
Regards,
-Martin
