On Jun 30, 2006, at 2:10 PM, William K. Volkman wrote: > On Thu, 2006-06-29 at 21:05, Daniel Miller wrote: >> Michael Bayer wrote: >>> well, the url is broken out like this: >>> >>> dbtype:// / <database> >> >> Why is the third slash necessary if its not part of the path? I >> think the conventional way is to parse paths like this: > > Please refer to http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1738.txt > for the canonical forms of URL/URI syntax.
Right, I had forgotten that between // and / there is a bunch of other optional info: username, password, host, and port. Sorry for the confusion. ~ Daniel Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Sqlalchemy-users mailing list Sqlalchemy-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sqlalchemy-users